Obs. [f. CONFESSION + -ER1.] An advocate of auricular confession; a confessor.
1561. T. N[orton], Calvin’s Inst., III. iv. (1634), 307. The Confessioners [L. confessionarii] alleadge for this purpose the power of the Keies.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 268. Your couled confessioners, who be privie & partakers of your hidden abhominations.
