CONFIRM Copy link • CONFIRMmake or declare valid, sancire (e.g., augurem, the choice of an augur; pactum, legem, etc.): alicujus rei auctorem fieri (to approve of and receive: e.g., of a law, legis; said of the Senate): ratum facere or efficere: ratum esse jubere (to declare something that has taken place, valid, etc.) : Strengthen by arguments or witnesses, confirmare, with or without rationibus or argumentis: probare: comprobare (to declare to others as true, valid or fit): by anything, aliqua re: by examples, exemplis comprobare: firmare, affirmare: confirmare (to confirm the truth of anything): fidem alicui rei addere (to add confirmation or faith to anything): to confirm the truth of a saying, that etc., facere, ut vere dictum videatur, etc. (Vid: Nep., Attic., 11, 6): the result, the issue of the matter has confirmed it, exitus docuit: to confirm by one’s testimony, testimonio confirmare: to confirm by one’s oath, jurejurando obstringere (to asseverate with an oath, Tac., Ann., 4, 31, 3): to confirm by oath, jurejurando firmare, sancire: to be confirmed, probari; comprobari. To make firm; establish, stabilire (to give duration or stability; e.g., to liberty, government, etc.): fundare (to found; e.g., the security of the state, one’s power, etc.). As religious action to confirm young Christians, *adolescentes utriusque sexus doctrinam Christianam professos coram omnibus commendare Deo: ☞ sacris Christianis initiare is (according to the adopted idiom) our baptizing.