solicitant

1. (Catholicism, historical) A priest who abused the confessional to solicit women.Examples: "How like to the conduct of a Titular Bishop of Derry, who, when a Priest was accused of the crime of "solicitant at confession," expressed his abhorrence of the offence, and punished the offender by removing him to a better parish!"; "Solicitant, one who, abusing the privacy of the confessional, tempts women to a violation of chastity."; "That the Confessional has been grossly used for immoral purposes, by evil-disposed priests, and that to a gigantic extent in the Church of Rom, is amply proved, beyond the possibility of refutation, by the Bulls of the Popes themselves against solicitant priests."historical