Word Meanings - EARSHRIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. Cartwright.

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• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• SHRIFT
  1. The act of shriving. In shrift and preaching is my diligence. Chaucer. 2. Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it. Chaucer. Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day Shak. Therefore, my lord, address you
• CONFESSIONIST
  One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
• AURICULARS
  A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.
• CONFESSIONALIST
  A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
• CONFESSIONARY
  A confessional. Johnson.
• NICKNAME
  A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation. (more info) ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick,
• AURICULARLY
  In an auricular manner.
• AURICULAR
  Pertaining to the auricles of the heart. Auricular finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves. 2.
• AURICULARIA
  A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.
• CONFESSIONAL
  The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without
• INTERAURICULAR
  Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart.
• EARSHRIFT
  A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. Cartwright.
• TEMPORO-AURICULAR
  Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
• SUPRA-AURICULAR
  Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds. -- n.