confirmation (kon ferm ash on)

[ ening, fortifying, or rendering firm. But Mand an is said that they inured their bodies to labour for the confirmation of their minds against pas Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 454. sions. IMG:content-1039.png:[blocks in formation] A false report which hath Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment. Shak ., Cymbeline, i. 7. It was at Benin, another Negro country, that the king again received a confirmation of the existence of a Christian prince, who was said to inhabit the heart of Africa to the south-east of this state. Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 105. Of all the results gained by Nordenskjöld's famous exit has afforded of the true nature of continental,ice. 1185 and confirmed the right granted to the purchaser, and the sasine following upon it. Confirmation and Probate Act. See Probate Act, under probate. Confirmation of executor, in Scots law, the form in which a title is conferred on the executor of a person deceased to intromit with and administer the defunct's movable effects, for behoof of the executor himself or of those interested in the succe ion. confirmative (kon-fér'ma-tiv), a. [= F. con firm at if Pr. confermatiu = Sp. Pg. confirm a tivo = It. confermativo, picions. confirmatively (kon-fer'ma-tiv-li), adv. In a confirmative manner; so as to confirm.