Definition of confirm

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Confirm (v. t.) 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..

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Confirmatory :: Confirmatory (a. .) Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable..
Inveterate :: Inveterate (a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker..
Confirmingly :: Confirmingly (adv.) In a confirming manner.
Chrism :: Chrism (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc..
Confirm :: Confirm (v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3..
Void :: Void (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2..
Reconfirm :: Reconfirm (v. t.) To confirm anew.
Obsign :: Obsign (v. t.) To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp..
Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
Inspeximus :: Inspeximus (n.) The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant..
Confirmedly :: Confirmedly (adv.) With confirmation.
Homologate :: Homologate (v. t.) To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding..
Ratihabition :: Ratihabition (n.) Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..
Ratifier :: Ratifier (n.) One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer..
Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..
Confirmable :: Confirmable (a.) That may be confirmed.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority..
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