CONFIRM
\kənfˈɜːm], \kənfˈɜːm], \k_ə_n_f_ˈɜː_m]\
Definitions of CONFIRM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
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strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
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administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
By Princeton University
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make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
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strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
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administer the religius rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
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To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
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To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
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To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
By Oddity Software
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To strengthen; retify; administer the rite of confirmation to.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To strengthen: to fix or establish: to assure: to admit to full communion in the Episcopal Church.
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CONFIRMABLE.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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