Chapter Confessant to Confirmation of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

4. Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.

Sir, I desire some confidence with you.
Shak.

Confidence game, any swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler. — Confidence man, a swindler. — To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

Syn. — Trust; assurance; expectation; hope.

I am confident that very much be done.
Boyle.

2. Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.

Be confident to speak, Northumberland;
We three are but thyself.
Shak.

3. Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.

As confident as is the falcon's flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.
Shak.

4. Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.

The fool rageth and is confident.
Prov. xiv. 16.

5. Giving occasion for confidence. [R.]

The cause was more confident than the event was prosperous.
Jer. Taylor.

Confident
(Con"fi*dent), n. See Confidant. South. Dryden.

Confidential
(Con`fi*den"tial) a. [Cf. F. confidentiel.]

1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

2. Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke.

Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged communication, under Privileged. — Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. — Confidential debts, debts incurred for borrowed money, and regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts. McElrath.

Confidentially
(Con`fi*den"tial*ly) adv. In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.

Confidently
(Con"fi*dent*ly) adv. With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

Confidentness
(Con"fi*dent*ness), n. The quality of being confident.

Confider
(Con*fid"er) n. One who confides.

Confiding
(Con*fid"ing), a. That confides; trustful; unsuspicious. — Con*fid"ing*ly, adv. — Con*fid"ing*ness, n.

Configurate
(Con*fig"ur*ate) v. i. [L. configuratus, p. p. of configurare to form or after; con- + figurare to form, figura form. See Figure.] To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.

Known by the name of uniformity;
Where pyramids to pyramids relate
And the whole fabric doth configurate.
Jordan.