Definition of "confest" [confest]

• Simple past tense and past participle of confess. (verb)

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• "I think fit to tell thee these following truths; that I did not undertake to write, or to publish this discourse of fish and fishing, to please my self, and that I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it."
• "It was too true; the sword, after being kicked out three or four times from its uncomfortable post between his legs, had returned unconquered; and the hilt getting a little too far back by reason of the too great length of the belt, the weapon took up its post triumphantly behind, standing out point in air, a tail confest, amid the tittering of the ostlers, and the cheers of the sailors."
• ""Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest,/Some are, and must be, greater than the rest," wrote the 18th-century satirist Alexander Pope."