Word Meanings - CONFIRMEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One to whom anuthing is confirmed.

CONFIRMEDLY
With confirmation.
CONFIRMEE
One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
CONFIRMEDNESS
A fixed state.
CONFIRMER
One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.
CONFIRM
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. Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle;
CONFIRMATION
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. This ordinance is called confirmation, because
CONFIRMABLE
That may be confirmed.
CONFIRMATORY
Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor. 2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. Compton.
CONFIRMATIVE
Tending confirm or establish. Sherwood. -- Con*firm"a*tive*ly, adv.
CONFIRMANCE
Confirmation.
CONFIRMINGLY
In a confirming manner.
CONFIRMATOR
One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer. Sir T. Browne.
RECONFIRM
To confirm anew. Clarendon.