Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Confessionary \Con*fes"sion*a*ry\, n. [LL. confessionarium.]
   A confessional. [Obs.] --Johnson.

Confessionary \Con*fes"sion*a*ry\, a.
   Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary
   litany.