a. and sb. Obs. rare. [ad. med.L. confortātori-us, f. confortātor strengthener, COMFORTER: see -ORY.] A. adj. Strengthening. B. sb. A strengthening message, application, etc.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Wks., II. IV. 239 (R.). His … aim is, in this close of his epistle, to leave behind him a strengthening confortatory unto the whole Church.
