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To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.

To corroborate; to confirm. -- To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. "Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings." Addison.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

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. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

To prove or confirm by circumstances; to entr into details concerning. Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation. The imperfections which you have cited. Shak.

To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South.

y; to corroborate. [Obs.] Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker.

Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life.

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.

The act of ratifying or establishing, as if signing; confirmation; ratuficator. A direct consignation of pardon. Jer. Taylor.

rrespondence, 3. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke.

To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth. I. Taylor.

The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

Tending to strengthen of confirm.

To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.

represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward…

immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith. Acts xvi. 5. The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence a…