Confirm

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

II. Confirm ·vt To administer the rite of confirmation to. ·see Confirmation, 3.

III. Confirm ·vt To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to Establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

IV. Confirm ·vt To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to Verify; to Corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

V. Confirm ·vt 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.