Obs. [a. med.L. confrāter: see CONFRERE.] A member of a brotherhood.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. 24. [They] will not sticke to sweare, and take on (as the other their confraters before).
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, II. 348. The old Bead-house in that Town, for a Warden, Confrater, twelve poor old men.
1691. trans. Emilianne’s Obs. Journ. Naples, 233. I told this French Father, That the Monks his Confraters had done very well [etc.].
