confirm

• confirme (obsolete)

From Middle English, from Old French confermer, from Latin confirmāre (“to make firm, strenghten, establish”), from com- (“together”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɜːm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɝm/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
• Hyphenation: con‧firm

confirm (third-person singular simple present confirms, present participle confirming, simple past and past participle confirmed)

1. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
2. (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

     Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

3. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

• (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

• infirm
• disconfirm
• deny
• dispute
• contradict
• question

• confirmability
• confirmation

• verify
• corroborate
• establish
• prove

• confirm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• confirm in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• confirm at OneLook Dictionary Search