Confirm vs Established - What's the difference?
confirm | established |
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
(establish)
Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
As verbs the difference between confirm and established
is that confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute while established is (establish).As an adjective established is
of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.confirm
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Alternative forms
* confirme (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
Antonyms
* infirm * disconfirm * deny * dispute * contradict * questionSee also
* verify * corroborate * establish * proveExternal links
* * * English reporting verbsestablished
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
