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.