Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Confirm (v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
(2) - Confirm (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.
(3) - Confirm (v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
(4) - Confirm (v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
(5) - Confirm (v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

(1) - Confirmable (a.) That may be confirmed.

(1) - Confirmation (n.) A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.
(2) - Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc.
(3) - Confirmation (n.) That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
(4) - Confirmation (n.) The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.

(1) - Confirmative (a.) Tending to confirm or establish.