different between confess vs probator

English

Etymology

From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Medieval Latin confess? (“I confess”), a derivative of Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of c?nfiteor (“I confess, I admit”) from con- + fateor (“I admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?f?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

confess (third-person singular simple present confesses, present participle confessing, simple past and past participle confessed)

2. To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

   I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!

   I confess that I am a sinner.

   • I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.

3. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

   • Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.

   • For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

4. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

   • Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.

5. (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles

     He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.

7. To disclose or reveal.

Derived terms

• fess, fess up

Related terms

• confession
• confessional
• confessor

Translations

See also

• own up
• come clean

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

probator (plural probators)

1. An examiner; an approver.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Maydman to this entry?)

2. (law, Britain, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.

Anagrams

• pro-abort, proabort

Latin

Etymology 1

From prob?.

Noun

prob?tor m (genitive prob?t?ris); third declension

1. approver
2. examiner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• prob?t?ria

Etymology 2

Verb

prob?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of prob?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of prob?

References

• probator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• probator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette