CONFIRM

confirm

(verb) make more firm; “Confirm thy soul in self-control!”

confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm

(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; “his story confirmed my doubts”; “The evidence supports the defendant”

confirm, reassert

(verb) strengthen or make more firm; “The witnesses confirmed the victim’s account”

confirm

(verb) administer the rite of confirmation to; “the children were confirmed in their mother’s faith”

confirm

(verb) support a person for a position; “The Senate confirmed the President’s candidate for Secretary of Defense”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

confirm (third-person singular simple present confirms, present participle confirming, simple past and past participle confirmed)

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

(transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Synonyms

• (strengthen): See also strengthen

Antonyms

• infirm

• disconfirm

• deny

• dispute

• contradict

• question

Source: Wiktionary

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Con*firm", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Confrmed; p.pr. & vb.n. Confirming.] Etym: [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. Annd 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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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