a ceremony among the ancient Romans, used in the marriage of persons whose children were destined for the honour of the priesthood.

Confarreation was the most sacred of the three modes of contracting marriage among that people; and consisted, according to Servius, in this, that the pontifex maximus and flamens dialis joined and contracted the man and woman, by making them eat of the same cake of salted bread; whence the term far, signifying meal or flour.

Ulpian says, it consisted in the offering up of some pure wheaten bread; refreshing withal a certain formula, in presence of ten witnesses. Dionysius Halicarnassus adds, that the husband and wife did eat of the same wheaten bread, and threw part on the victims.