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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Confirm \Con*firm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confrmed}; p. pr &
vb n. {Confirming}.] [OE. confermen, confirmen, OF
confermer, F. confirmer, fr L. confirmare con- + firmare to
make firm, fr firmus firm. See {Firm}.]
1. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to to establish;
as health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. --Shak.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. --Ps.
cv 10.
2. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me
in bliss or woe. --Milton.
3. To give new assurance of the truth of to render certain;
to verify; to corroborate; as to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. --Pope.
These likelihoods confirm her flight. --Shak.
4. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a
necessary sanction; to ratify; as to confirm the
appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been
remitted rather than confimed. --Swift.
5. (Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to See
{Confirmation}, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed
to be fit for admission to the sacrament. --Hammond.
Syn: To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish;
fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
confirm
v 1: strengthen or make more firm as by corroboration; "his story
confirmed my doubts" [syn: {corroborate}, {sustain}, {substantiate},
{support}, {affirm}] [ant: {negate}]
2: strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the
victim's account" [syn: {reassert}]
3: make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
4: as of a person to a position: "The Senate confirmed the
President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
5: administer confirmation to a church rite
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