a. and sb. Obs. rare. [ad. L. conficient-em, pr. pple. of conficĕre to accomplish.]
A. adj. That accomplishes, or performs; officiating.
1629. Sir H. Lynde, Via Tuta, 174 (Quoting Council of Trent). The lay people and the non-conficient Priest.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Conficient, which finisheth, procureth, or worketh.
1755. Johnson, Conficient, that causes or procures; effective.
B. sb. An officiating priest.
1614. Jackson, Creed, III. v. Wks. II. 224. They might … have altogether denied the use of it so much as to the sacrificer or conficient.
1638. D. Featley, Strict. in Lyndomast., I. 135. Priests … in the institution of this Sacrament … were non conficients.
