About The Word Confirm
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What's The Definition Of Confirm?
[v] make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
[v] establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [v] strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account" [v] administer the religius rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith" [v] as of a person to a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense" Synonyms | Synonyms for Confirm: affirm | corroborate | reassert | substantiate | support | sustain Related Terms | Find terms related to Confirm: accede | accept | acclimate | acclimatize | accommodate | accredit | accustom | acquiesce | adapt | addict | adjust | administer the Eucharist | affirm | amen | anoint | approve | assay | assent | assure | attest | audit | authenticate | authorize | autograph | back | back up | be sponsor for | bear out | bed | beef up | bind | bolster | bond | brace | brace up | break | break in | bring to test | buttress | case harden | certify | check | check and doublecheck | check out | check over | chrism | circumstantiate | clinch | collate | condition | consent | corroborate | cosign | countersecure | countersign | cross-check | cut and try | deep-dye | define | do duty | document | domesticate | domesticize | double-check | embed | encourage | endorse | engraft | engrave | ensure | entrench | essay | establish | etch | experiment | familiarize | fix | fortify | found | gentle | gird | give a try | give a tryout | give permission | give the go-ahead | give the imprimatur | give thumbs up | ground | guarantee | guaranty | habituate | harden | have a go | housebreak | impact | implant | impose | impress | imprint | infix | ingrain | initial | inscribe | insure | inure | invigorate | jam | justify | lay hands on | lodge | make good | minister | naturalize | nerve | notarize | officiate | OK | orient | orientate | pack | painstakingly match | pass | pass on | pass upon | perform a rite | perform service | permit | plant | play around with | practice upon | print | probate | prop | prove | put to trial | ratify | recheck | recognize | refresh | reinforce | reinvigorate | research | restrengthen | road-test | root | rubber stamp | run a sample | sample | sanction | say amen to | scrutinize comparatively | seal | season | seat | second | secure | set | set in | settle | shake down | shore up | sign | sign and seal | sign for | sponsor | stamp | stand behind | stand up for | steel | stereotype | stiffen | strengthen | subscribe | subscribe to | substantiate | support | sustain | swear and affirm | swear to | take to | tame | taste | temper | test | toughen | train | triple-check | try | try it on | try out | undergird | underpin | undersign | underwrite | uphold | validate | verify | visa | vise | vouch | warrant | wedge | witness | wont See Also | affirm | approve | back | back up | beef up | corroborate | covenant | demonstrate | document | establish | fortify | justify | maintain | O.K. | okay | prove | reconfirm | sanction | shew | show | strengthen | uphold | validate | validate | verify | verify | vouch | warrant Confirm In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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