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CONFIRM v. 5 definitions

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.

That may be confirmed.

Confirmation. [Obs.]

CONFIRMATION n. 4 definitions

The act of confirming 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.

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.

CONFIRMEDLY adv.

With confirmation.

CONFIRMEDNESS n.

One to whom anuthing is confirmed.

One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.

CONFIRMINGLY adv.

In a confirming manner.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

CONFISCATE a. 2 definitions

opriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

CONFISCATION n.

The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

One who confiscates. Burke.

CONFISCATORY a.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

Same as Comfit. [Obs.]

One who confesses his sins and faults. [Obs.]

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.