confessional as a noun: - 1
confessional
noun
1 confessional
A booth where a priest sits to hear confessions.
Roget 529:
disclosure;
retection†;
unveiling
etc.
v.;
deterration†,
revealment,
revelation;
exposition,
exposure;
expose;
whole truth;
telltale
etc.
(news)
532.
acknowledgment,
avowal;
confession,
confessional;
shrift.
bursting of a bubble;
denouement.
[person who discloses a secret]
tattletale,
snitch,
fink,
stool pigeon,
canary.
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Roget 1000:
place of worship;
house of God,
house of prayer.
temple,
cathedral,
minster†,
church,
kirk,
chapel,
meetinghouse,
bethel†,
tabernacle,
conventicle,
basilica,
fane†,
holy place,
chantry†,
oratory.
synagogue;
mosque;
marabout†;
pantheon;
pagoda;
joss house†;
dogobah†,
tope;
kiosk;
kiack†,
masjid†.
[clergymen's residence]
parsonage,
rectory,
vicarage,
manse,
deanery,
glebe;
Vatican;
bishop's palace;
Lambeth.
altar,
shrine,
sanctuary,
Holy of Holies,
sanctum sanctorum [Lat.],
sacristy;
sacrarium†;
communion table,
holy table,
Lord's table;
table of the Lord;
pyx;
baptistery,
font;
piscina†,
stoup;
aumbry†;
sedile†;
reredos;
rood loft,
rood screen.
[parts of a church: list]
chancel,
quire,
choir,
nave,
aisle,
transept,
vestry,
crypt,
golgotha,
calvary,
Easter sepulcher;
stall,
pew;
pulpit,
ambo†,
lectern,
reading desk,
confessional,
prothesis†,
credence,
baldachin,
baldacchino†;
apse,
belfry;
chapter house;
presbytery;
anxious-bench,
anxious-seat;
diaconicum [Lat.],
jube†;
mourner's bench,
mourner's seat.
[exterior adjacent to a church]
cloisters,
churchyard.
monastery,
priory,
abbey,
friary,
convent,
nunnery,
cloister.
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Dutch: biechtstoel
Polish: konfesjonał
Moby thesaurus: Easter sepulcher, admissive, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, canonical, chancel, choir, cloisters, confessionary, creedal, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, doctrinal, dogmatic, nave, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, transept, triforium, vestry ... show more.
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