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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.]

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.

Tending confirm or establish. Sherwood. -- Con*firm"a*tive*ly, adv.

One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer. Sir T. Browne.

Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor.

With confirmation.

A fixed state.

One to whom anuthing is confirmed.

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

In a confirming manner.

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

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak.

A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.

A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.

Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void. [Obs.]

An infirmary. [Obs.]