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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof. A politi…

To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish. [Obs.] And Jove has firmed it with an awful nod. Dryden.

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

abor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.

Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.

Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.

To have the honor, to have the privilege or distinction. -- Word of honor, an engagement confirmed by a pledge of honor.

To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.

habitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.

The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant.

Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction. Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands. Shak.

To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] Shak.

iven to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

th, composed and adopted by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, A. D. 325, altered and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 381, and by subsequent councils.

To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp. [Obs.] Bradford.

The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit. The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Jer. Taylor.