[med.L. confessārius, f. confess-, ppl. stem of confitērī to CONFESS.] = next.
1661. Cressy, Refl. Oaths Suprem. & Alleg., 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.
1745. A. Butler, Lives of Saints, Camillus (1847), VII. 208. Making use of St. Philip Neri for his confessarius.
1845. G. Oliver, Coll. Biog. Soc. of Jesus, 74. He … was confessarius to the English college at Rome.
