Confirmed

Definition: Confirmed

Confirmed

Adjective

1. Of persons; not subject to change; "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid".

2. Having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation; "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic".

3. Having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "confirmed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Confirmed

Impulse

Cacoethes; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit; addiction, trick.

Stability

Fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established; Verb: vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable.

Crosswords: Confirmed

I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

Well, as I said, I'm still collating it, actually, but uh, I have confirmed that he's got an outer layer of protein polysaccharides. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

Authorization confirmed. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

Bachelors... Confirmed (1993)

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Books

• Engaging the Closed Minded: Presenting Your Faith to the Confirmed Unbeliever (reference)

• Polymers in Confirmed Environments (Advances in Polymer Science, Vol 138) (reference)

• Powerfully Recovered! A Confirmed 12 Stepper Challenges the Movement (reference)

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Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast, demonstrating marked enhancement (bright area) which was confirmed to be cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

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In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. (reference)

Thus, whether a family by degrees grew up into a common-wealth, and the fatherly authority being continued on to the elder son, every one in his turn growing up under it, tacitly submitted to it, and the easiness and equality of it not offending any one, every one acquiesced, till time seemed to have confirmed it, and settled a right of succession by prescription: or whether several families, or the descendants of several families, whom chance, neighbourhood, or business brought together, uniting into society, the need of a general, whose conduct might defend them against their enemies in war, and the great confidence the innocence and sincerity of that poor but virtuous age, (such as are almost all those which begin governments, that ever come to last in the world) gave men one of another, made the first beginners of commonwealths generally put the rule into one man's hand, without any other express limitation or restraint, but what the nature of the thing, and the end of government required: which ever of those it was that at first put the rule into the hands of a single person, certain it is no body was intrusted with it but for the public good and safety, and to those ends, in the infancies of commonwealths, those who had it commonly used it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Hamilton, of New York,) expressing their unanimous conviction that it might essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union if the States by which they were respectively delegated would concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same. (reference)

The closure of contracts relating to cotton "futures", which were closed as on July 31, 1914, under the decision of the Liverpool Cotton Association, is also confirmed. (reference)

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But in every respect, as she saw more of her, she approved her, and was confirmed in all her kind designs.

He was confirmed in this severity by the opportunities for corruption that abounded in M__ sur M__, it being a garrisoned city.

But it was carried against him by the whole board, and confirmed by the Emperor.

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

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Health

Rabies can be confirmed only in a laboratory. (references)

If parasites are present, the diagnosis is confirmed. (references)

Diagnosis can be confirmed by a potassium hydroxide smear. (references)

Business

Appointments should always be confirmed and reconfirmed a day before. (references)

Former Minister of Pubic Security Hua Guofeng was quickly confirmed as Party Chairman and Premier. (references)

First, China will not allow letters of credit issued by its banks to be confirmed by other banks, Chinese or foreign. (references)

Children

Solomon Islands

In 2000 Amnesty International reported that Guadalcanalese militants included a number of child soldiers; however, this report has not been confirmed or repeated. (references)

Guatemala

Former military commissioner Victor Vicente Poroj raped 11-year-old Ana Maria Pichol Guarcax on four occasions in December 1999. A forensic doctor in Chimaltenango confirmed the crime. (references)

Iraq

The executive director of the U.N. office in charge of the oil-for-food program confirmed the insufficient placement of orders in a January 2000 letter to the Government, in which he expressed concern about the low rate of submission of applications in the health, education, water, sanitation, and oil sectors. (references)

Civil Liberties

Egypt

The ruling was confirmed by the Military Governor, who rejected Mahran's plea for clemency. (references)

Poland

At the Debak camps, there have been allegations of sexual assaults on children, one of which was confirmed. (references)

Kazakhstan

Some reports indicate that the three men subsequently were executed upon return to China, but this information has not been confirmed. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

Available within 3-4 months of confirmed request. (references)

Ireland

The November 1992 general election confirmed this trend. (references)

Indonesia

Export figures through May 2001 have confirmed the slowing trend. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

These cases have not yet been confirmed. (references)

Georgia

Medical examinations confirmed Sturua's charges. (references)

Jamaica

Neither account could be confirmed independently. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Delegates approved a resolution rejecting the 1969 "Act of Free Choice," which confirmed Papua's incorporation into Indonesia; called on the central Government, along with the U.N. and the U.S. and Dutch governments, to review the process by which the territory became a part of Indonesia and to recognize Papua's sovereignty since 1961; and mandated the Papuan Presidium Council to strive for international recognition and to report back to the congress on December 1 2000, regarding progress toward these goals. (references)

Minorities

Mexico

This report could not be confirmed. (references)

Czech Republic

Roma also were subject to popular prejudice, as is confirmed repeatedly by public opinion polls. (references)

Political Economy

Armenia

The President appoints the Prime Minister and Ministers, who do not need to be confirmed by the parliament. (references)

ECUADOR

The Noboa government confirmed its commitment to dollarize as the centerpiece of its economic recovery strategy. (references)

Bolivia

There were a number of allegations of torture by the police and security forces, although none were confirmed independently. (references)

Political Rights

Ghana

DCE's must be confirmed by two-thirds of the district assembly members. (references)

Maldives

The nominee is then confirmed or rejected by secret ballot in a nationwide referendum. (references)

Togo

On April 9, 1999, the Constitutional Court confirmed that of the 2,412,027 registered voters, 1,592,661 voted, for a turnout of 66 percent. (references)

Trade

Turkey

LCs should be irrevocable and confirmed by a prime U.S. bank. (references)

Azerbaijan

Letters of credit, confirmed by Western banks, are the usual method for small to medium transactions in Azerbaijan. (references)

Pakistan

The preferred means of payment for imports into Pakistan are against a confirmed irrevocable Letter of Credit (L/C). (references)

Travel

Syria

Exact date to be confirmed. (references)

Thailand

Purpose of visit: TRANSIT (requiring proof of confirmed onward ticket to a third country). (references)

Philippines

Business lunches and dinners are usually arranged personally over the phone and confirmed by the secretary. (references)

Women

Japan

The National Police Agency confirmed three cases of spousal rape during the year. (references)

Mozambique

Unlike in the previous year, there were no confirmed cases of women being trafficked from the country during the year. (references)

Worker Rights

Solomon Islands

The courts have confirmed these rights. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

That is confirmed

Expressions using "confirmed": be confirmed ♦ confirmed alcoholic ♦ confirmed bachelor ♦ confirmed drunkard ♦ confirmed liar ♦ confirmed reservation. Additional references.

Beginning with "confirmed": confirmed-service.

Ending with "confirmed": re-confirmed.

Albanian

i provuar (experimental, tested, tried, well tried), i pashërueshëm (cureless, hopeless, incurable, remediless), i përhershëm (chronic, constant, eternal, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, immutable, lasting, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, sempiternal, settled), i konfirmuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقرر (affirmed, decided, determined, established, settled), ‏معزز (advanced, corroborative, promoted), ‏مصدق عليه (approved), ‏مؤكد (affirmed, asserted, assured, certain, controversy, definite, emphatic, established, positive, proven, sure). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хронически (chronic), закоравял (callous, case-hardened, chronic, crusted, double-dyed, habitual, hard boiled, indurate, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate, irreclaimable, obdurate, tough), заклет (inveterate, sworn). (various references)

Chinese 

证实 (Attest, Attested, Attesting, Authenticate, authenticated, Authenticating, Confirm, Confirming, substantiate, substantiated, substantiating, substantiation). (various references)

Czech

nenapravitelný (dyed in the wool, hopeless, incorrigible, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreparable, utter). (various references)

Danish

tilstand U9 MS Terminating Call Confirmed (state U9 MS terminating call confirmed), den naere forbindelse der er mellem det maalelige stoevindhold, der indaandes, og tegn paa kullunge har bekraeftet de forventede fordele ved at benytte dette som parameter for belastningen (the resulting good correlation between the mass concentration of respirable dust and the pneumoconiosis hazard confirmed the expected advantages of using this mass parameter), bekræftet tjeneste (confirmed-service), bekræftet reservation (confirmed reservation), bekræftet rembursen (confirmed credit, confirmed documentary credit, confirmed letter of credit), bekræftelse (confirm, confirm primitive, confirmation, confirmed reservation, corroboration). (various references)

Dutch

confirmering (confirmation, confirmed reservation), voortgangssignaal van de oproep bevestiging van registratie of annulering van de faciliteit (facility registration or cancellation confirmed call progress signal), U9 MS Terminating Call Confirmed (state U9 MS terminating call confirmed), mondelinge,schriftelijk bevestigde overeenkomst (oral agreement confirmed in writing), gehomologeerd (confirmed by the court, endorsed by the court), geconfirmeerde boeking (confirmed reservation), geconfirmeerd accreditief (confirmed credit, confirmed documentary credit, confirmed letter of credit), door de rechtbank bekrachtigd (confirmed by the court, endorsed by the court), de enige correlatie,die er bestaat tussen de gewichtshoeveelheid van het in de luchtstroom opgenomen inadembaar stof en het pneumoconiose-gevaar,bevestigt het grote voordeel van het gebruik als parameter van deze gewichtsnorm (the resulting good correlation between the mass concentration of respirable dust and the pneumoconiosis hazard confirmed the expected advantages of using this mass parameter), bevestiging (affirmation, assent, confirmation), bevestigde dienst (confirmed-service). (various references)

Finnish

vahvistua (be strengthened, gain strength, grow in strength), piintynyt (inveterate). (various references)

French

confirmé. (various references)

German

erklärt (acknowledged, avowed, confessed, declared, declares, explained, explains, expounds, melds, professed, professes), eingeschworen (sworn), eingefleischt (accustomed, chronic, crusted, deep rooted, engrained, ingrained, inveterate), arg (abusive, angry, bad, bitter, coarse, cross, crude, evil, harsh, important, inveterate, malicious, mischievous, nasty, raw, rough, serious, sore, sorely, terrible, unrefined, unwrought, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

έμμονοσ (obsessive), επικυρωμένοσ, επιβεβαιωμένοσ, αμετάπειστοσ (adamant), αποδεδειγμένοσ (proven), αθεράπευτοσ (incurable, irremediable, uncured, unremedied), αδιόρθωτοσ (incorrigible, tough, uncorrected, unreformed, unregenerate). (various references)

Hebrew 

מושבע (avowed, inveterate, sworn), מוע�" (festival, forewarned, habitual, liable, meeting, season, term, warned). (various references)

Hungarian

megrögzött (besetting, compulsive, deep-seated, habitual, hardcore, ingrown, rooted). (various references)

Italian

confermato (fortifies, ratifies). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

確� � (confirmed data, definite report). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かくほう (confirmed data, definite report). (various references)

Korean 

확인하�" (authenticated, Confirmative, identified, Verified). (various references)

Manx

niartit (affirmed, consolidated, corroborated, strengthened), firrinit, feerit (affirmed, verified), er ve fo laue yn aspick. (various references)

Pig Latin

onfirmedcay

Portuguese

crismado, crônico (chronic), confirmado (confirmee), inveterado (deep-rooted, deep-seated, double-dyed, engrained, entrenched, incarnate, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate), incorrigível (double-dyed, engrained, inveterate, wrong-headed). (various references)

Romanian

cronic (chronic, chronically, inveterate, old), convins (confident, convinced, earnest, out and out, persuaded, positive), confirmat (certified), inveterat (arrant, deep-seated, die hard, engrained, hopeless, ingrained, irreclaimable), incurabil (immedicable, incurable), atestat (certificate), înrãit (double-dyed, hopeless, ingrained, inveterate, wicked). (various references)

Russian 

убежденный (convinced, earnest). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potvrđen (certified), ovejan (chronic, habitual, true blue), okoreo (addicted, arrant, chronic, double-dyed, dyed in the wool, impenitent, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate, obdurate, out and out, thorough). (various references)

Spanish

empedernido (die hard, double-dyed, habitual, heartless, inveterate, stony). (various references)

Swedish

oförbätterlig (dyed in the wool, incorrigible, irredeemable), inbiten (inveterate). (various references)

Turkish

yerleşmiş (domicilled, engrained, established, ingrained, inveterate, sedentary, situate, situated, staple), tiryaki (addict, addicted, fiend, inveterate), tasdikli (certified), onaylı (approved, certificated, certified), müzmin (chronic, inveterate, obstinate, protracted), bağımlı (addict, addicted, clinging, dependent, freak, given to, habitual, hooked, in the bondage of vice, interdependent, inveterate, linked, subject, subsidiary). (various references)

Ukrainian

хроничний, закоренілий (deep rooted, double-dyed, dyed in the wool, engrained, habitual, inveterate, old), переконаний (certain, convinced, earnest, out and out, satisfied). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thâm căn cố đế (deep-rooted, double-dyed, engrained, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate), th� nh cố tật, kinh niên, ăn sâu (deep-rooted, engrained, ingrained). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "confirmed": confirmedly, confirmedness, confirmednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "confirmed": disconfirmed, reconfirmed, unconfirmed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confirmed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: confimed, confirma, confrimed, fonfirmed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: confider, informed.

-2 letters: coinfer, comfier, confide, confirm, conifer, cornfed, deiform, demonic, dormice, fermion, incomer, minored.

-3 letters: cinder, codein, coifed, coined, coiner, confer, corned, deform, dermic, dinero, domine, dormie, dormin, emodin, finder, firmed, foined, fonder, forced, formed, formic, friend, income, inform, ironed, medico, merino, micron, minced, mincer, minder, modern, monied, nimrod, nordic, normed, orcein.

+2 letters: confirmedly, reconfirmed, unconfirmed.

+3 letters: disconfirmed.

+4 letters: confirmedness.