confirment
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confirmo, confirmare, confirmavi, confirmatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strengthen, develop, build up (w/troops); make secure/firm; reassure; secure;; assert positively; declare, prove, confirm, support; sanction; encourage;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sunt tamen inscripti nomine Hermagorae libri qui confirment illam opinionem, sive falsus est titulus sive alius hic Hermagoras..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sententiis eorum velut quibusdam testimoniis quae proposuere confirment. Verum priora illa ad pueros magis, haec sequentia ad robustiores..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...promptam audaciam, mandat, quibus rebus possent, opes factionis confirment, insidias consuli maturent, caedem, incendia aliaque belli facinora parent..."