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with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Acts xxv. 19.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.

One who affirms or asserts.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.

One who affirms.

To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

To affirm incorrectly.

To affirm again.

A second affirmation.

nies 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.

The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.