Definition of: confarreation

(kon·far′ē·ā′shən) noun
In ancient Rome, the patrician religious form of marriage, in which a cake of spelt was offered to Jupiter before the pontifex maximus and the flamens of Jupiter. [<L confarreatio, -onis <confarreare marry solemnly <com- together + farreum cake of spelt <far grain, wheat]