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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.

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.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation. The imperfections which you have cited. Shak.

To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond.

Confirmation. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. Compton.

With confirmation.

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

rrespondence, 3. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke.

The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward…

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.

To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.

habitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.

The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit. The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Jer. Taylor.