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The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

In an infirm manner.

Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.

To affirm incorrectly.

To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.

Hardness of heart; obduracy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To affirm again.

A second affirmation.

To confirm anew. Clarendon.

Infirm. [R.] Dryden.

Infirmness. [R.]

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

To confirm; to assure. [Obs.] "The title is affeered." Shak.

es that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.

One who affirms or declares.

esemblance, friendship, or love. These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

Hence: Firm hold: security.

rage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.