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A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay.

See under Cartridge.

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.

A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.

See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.

To set on fire. [Obs.] Spenser.