Affirm

af-ferm', v. t. [affirmed (-fermd'), -firming.] To confirm, establish, or ratify; to a ert postively, aver. — v. i. To declare positively. (Law.) To promise, before a magistrate or tribunal, to tell the truth, under pain of perjury. — Affirm a'tion, n. Act of, etc.; that which is "a erted; ratification. (Law.) Declaration by one -conscientiously unable to make oath.— Affirm' ative, -tiv, a. Affirming,— opp. to negative; confirmative; ratifying. n. A word sition; that expre ing side of a a ent; question an affirmative" which affirms pro pom a in tains, — opp. to negative. — Affirm'atively, adv. — Affirm'er, n.