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

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

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

er, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism. Locke.…

asury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. -- Court of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. "This…

The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

The act of ratifying or establishing, as if signing; confirmation; ratuficator. A direct consignation of pardon. Jer. Taylor.

The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from hange; stability; fixedness; immutabilitu; asm the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.

To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove. F. P. Cobbe.

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor.

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis. The anient constitutional traditions of the state. Macaulay.

Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.

Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.

ctly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.…

That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received…