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Ratifying; confirming by sealing. [Obs.] Samuel Ward (1643)

op to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845.

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A fact that occurs after another. "Confirmed upon the postfact." Fuller.

acon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

ration. I'll have some proof. Shak. It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases. Emerson.

imarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and lay struggling as if for life. Encyc. Brit.

To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. Time should . . . rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness. Barrow.

The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.

One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer. Shak.

Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.

To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reëstablish a covenant; to reëstablish health.

Rivet and nail me where I stand, ye powers! Congreve. Thus his confidence was riveted and confirmed. Sir W. Scott.

To give strength or support to; to confirm. [Obs.] Fuller.

f some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by authority to it; confirmation; approbation. The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony. I. Watts.

That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance. "under the seal of silence." Milton. Like a red seal is the setting sun On the good and the evil men have done. Lonfellow.

ttle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance. It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. Swift.

The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. [R.] Bp. Hall.

nt of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. Pope. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.