Confirm — Defs

01 v. t. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

imp. & p. p. Confrmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Confirming

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.
To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.(Eccl.) See: Confirmation
“Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.” — Hammond.