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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 confirm anew. Clarendon.

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

To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; esp. (Law),

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

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

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

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

To confirm; to make certain or secure. And it shall be assured to him. Lev. xxvii. 19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19.