See Also: Confirmation(finance)
Confirmation(money)
confirmation(encyclopedia)
confirmation(dictionary)
confirmation(dictionary)
Horn(dictionary)
Horn(medicine)
horn(1)(dictionary)
horn(2)(dictionary)
ten Horn(medicine)

horn(2) (iou) and confirmation (iou)


horn(2) (iou)



horn verb. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans.
a. Provide with horn or horns. LME.
b. Cuckold. Cf. HORN noun 4b. M16.
verb trans. Put to the horn; outlaw. obsolete exc. Scottish History. E16.
verb trans. Butt or (esp.) gore with the horns. L16.
b. verb intrans. Foll. by in: intrude (on), interfere. slang. E20.
verb trans. Adjust (the frame of a ship) at right angles to the line of the keel. M19.
verb intrans. Blow a horn; progress blowing a horn. L19.

confirmation (iou)



confirmation noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin confirmatio(n-), from confirmat- pa. ppl stem of confirmare: see CONFIRM, -ATION.]
A rite administered to baptized persons, esp. at the age of discretion to admit to full membership in various Christian Churches. In Judaism, the ceremony of bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah. ME.
The formal act of ratifying an appointment, election, decision, etc. ME.
The action of making (more) firm; establishing, settling. LME.
The action of corroborating or verifying; proof; a confirmatory statement or circumstance. LME.
Law. An act by a person ratifying a voidable estate. L15.
b. Scots Law. A ratification of the testamentary appointment of an executor, or the first appointment for a case of intestacy, by court order. L15.
Comb.: confirmation theory inductive logic.