CPage 521
- English Word Confinement Definition Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
- English Word Confinement Definition Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
- English Word Confiner Definition One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- English Word Confiner Definition One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.
- English Word Confining Definition of Confine
- English Word Confinity Definition Community of limits; contiguity.
- English Word Confirm Definition To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
- English Word Confirm Definition To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
- English Word Confirm Definition To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
- English Word Confirm Definition 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.
- English Word Confirm Definition To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
- English Word Confirmable Definition That may be confirmed.
- English Word Confirmance Definition Confirmation.
- English Word Confirmation Definition The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
- English Word Confirmation Definition That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
- English Word Confirmation Definition 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.
- English Word Confirmation Definition 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.
- English Word Confirmative Definition Tending to confirm or establish.
- English Word Confirmator Definition One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.
- English Word Confirmatory Definition Serving to confirm; corroborative.