[n. of action f. assumed vb. *confraternize: cf. confraternity, etc., and fraternize.] Fraternization together, recognition of each other as brethren.
1840. Frasers Mag., XXI. 159. This is a very striking confraternisation.
1860. T. L. Holt, John Horsleydown, 55. Too late to secure his confraternisation.