The action or rite of confirmation. archaic.

Confirmation, e.g. of a charter, or as a religious rite.

Christian Church. A rite administered to baptized persons in various Christian Churches; formerly called ‘bishoping’.

The religious rite of confirmation. Obsolete.

spec. The ceremony of Confirmation, esp. as practised in the Orthodox Churches.

The action of consign, v.

? leaving off of the baptismal cloth or robe.