confessariusn.
= confessary n.
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1661 H. P. Cressy Reflexions Oathes Supremacy 50 As for that purely spiritual Jurisdiction that a Bishop exercises in censures, or a Confessarius over his penitent in the internal Court of conscience.
1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 127 Making use of St. Philip Neri for his confessarius.
1845 G. Oliver Coll. Biogr. Soc. Jesus 74 He..was confessarius to the English college at Rome.
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