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rsecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. Latham. Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. Bacon.

he act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.

e apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

ed to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. One of our convent, and his [the duke's] confessor. Shak.

d emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. Fuller.

or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. [R.] Shak. He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil. Addison.

A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! Shak.

Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.

cifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church. This manual of laws, styled the Confessor's Laws. Sir M. Hale.

One under the direction of a confessor.

continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale.

One who shrives; a confessor.

k with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay.