confession ist (konfeshonist)

[= F. con fe i on i ste Pg. confe ion ist a; as confe ion + ist.] 1. One who makes a profe ion of faith. Protestant and Romish confe ionists . Bp . Mountagu , Appeal to Cæsar, Ded. 2. A Luther an who held to the Augsburg formulary. O. Shipley. confe or (kon-fes'or; formerly, and still often as the distinctive cognomen of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward III., kon'fes-or), n. [ seventeenth century; a small curl worn near the ear.