confirm

[Con*firmĀ·]

When you need to make sure before you leave that you have a reservation, you often call ahead to confirm, that is, to make sure that your tickets or space are set aside for you.

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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

Verb
make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

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establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

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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"

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as of a person to a position; "The Senate confirmed the President''s candidate for Secretary of Defense"

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v. t.
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

v. t.
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

v. t.
To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.


Confirm

Con*firm" , v. t. [imp. & p.p. Confrmed ; p.pr. & vb.n. Confirming.] [OE. confermen, confirmen, OF. confermer, F. confirmer, fr. L. confirmare; con- + firmare to make firm, fr. firmus firm. See Firm.] 1. 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.
Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.
2. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
3. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.
4. 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.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.
5. (Eccl.) 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.
Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure.

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

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Usage Examples

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

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Other Usage Examples

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

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