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CONFIRMATION n. 4 definitions
rming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim. Cowper.
CONFIRMATIVE a.
Tending confirm or establish. Sherwood. -- Con*firm"a*tive*ly, adv.
CONFIRMATOR n.
One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer. Sir T. Browne.
CONFIRMATORY a. 2 definitions
Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor.
CONFORMATE a.
Having the same form. [R.]
CONFORMATION n. 2 definitions
The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
CONFORMATOR n.
An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.
CONSUMMATE a. 2 definitions
extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate virtue." Addison. The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley
CONSUMMATELY adv.
In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
CONSUMMATION n.
The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of t…
CONSUMMATIVE a.
Serving to consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy." Sir W. Hamilton.
COPESMATE n.
An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.
CREMATE v.
o reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
CREMATION n.
A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.
CREMATIONIST n.
One who advocates the practice of cremation.
CREMATOR n.
One who, or that which, cremmates or consumes to ashes.
CREMATORIUM; CREMATORY n.
A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.
CREMATORY a.
Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.
CTENOSTOMATA n.
A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.
CYMATIUM n.
A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.
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