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
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.
• (strengthen): See also strengthen
• infirm
• disconfirm
• deny
• dispute
• contradict
• question
Source: Wiktionary
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
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
