confession Copy link • confession: confessio: a c. of one's error, peccati sui c., Cic.: to extort c. by torture, c. cruciatu exprimere, Suet.: Liv.: of religious c.: Aug.: Liv.: in modified sense: a c. that the power of the people was greater than that of the consul, c. populi quam consulis vim majorem esse, Liv. Phr.: to make c., confiteri (v. to confess): a c. of faith, *symbŏlum: v. CREED: auricular c., *confessio auricularis: Calv. Inst. (but the phr. should be used only in tech. sense: otherwise rather, confessio ecclesiastica; quae per sacerdotem fit; quae tutis sacerdotis auribus impertitur communicatio).