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<blockquote>The fool rageth and is <b>confident</b>. <i>Prov. xiv. 16.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Giving occasion for confidence.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The cause was more <b>confident</b> than the event was prosperious. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confident</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fi*dent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Confidant</er>.</def>

<i>South. Dryden.</i>

<h1>Confidential</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con`fi*den"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>confidentiel</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; <as>as, a <ex>confidential</ex> servant or clerk</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Communicated in confidence; secret.</def> "<i>Confidential</i> messages."

<i>Burke.</i>

<cs><col>Confidential communication</col> <fld>(Law)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Privileged communication</cref>, under <er>Privileged</er>.</cd> -- <col>Confidential creditors</col>, <cd>those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors.</cd> -- <col>Confidential debts</col>, <cd>debts incurred for borrowed money, and regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts.</cd></cs>

<i>McElrath.</i>

<h1>Confidentially</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con`fi*den"tial*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.</def>

<h1>Confidently</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fi*dent*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.</def>

<h1>Confidentness</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fi*dent*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being confident.</def>

<h1>Confider</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fid"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who confides.</def>

<h1>Confiding</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fid"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Con*fid"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Con*fid"ing*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Configurate</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fig"ur*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>configuratus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>configurare</ets> to form or after; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>figurare</ets> to form, <ets>figura</ets> form. See <er>Figure</er>.]</ety> <def>To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.</def>

<blockquote>Known by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth <b>configurate</b>. <i>Jordan.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Configuration</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fig`u*ra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>configuratio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.</def>

<blockquote>It is the variety of <b>configurations</b> [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. <i>Harris.</i></blockquote>