Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Configure

Con‐fig″ure (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Configured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Configuring.] [L. configurare: cf. F. configurer. See Configurate.] To arrange or dispose in a certain form, f...

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Confinable

Con‐fin″a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.Not confinable to any limits.Bp. Hall.

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Confine

Con‐fine″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Confined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Confining.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, Fi...

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Confine (2)

Con″fine (? or �); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; — followed by on or with.Where your gloomy boundsConfine with heaven.Milton.Bew...

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Confine (3)

Con″fine (?), n. 1. Common boundary; border; limit; — used chiefly in the plural.Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea.Locke.And now in little spaceThe confines ...

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Confineless

Con″fine′less (? or?), a. Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.

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Confinement

Con‐fine″ment (?), n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when t...

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Confiner

Con‐fin″er (?), n. One who, or that which, limits or restrains.

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Confiner (2)

Con″fi′ner (? or �), n. One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor. Bacon.Happy confiners you of other lands,That shift your soil, a...

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Confinity

Con‐fin″i‐ty (?), n. [Cf. F. confinité.] Community of limits; contiguity. Bailey.

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Confirm

Con‐firm″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Confrmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Confirming.] [OE. confermen, confirmen, OF. confermer, F. confirmer, fr. L. confirmare; con- + firmare to make fir...

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Confirmable

Con‐firm″a‐ble (?), a. That may be confirmed.

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Confirmance

Con‐firm″ance (?), n. Confirmation.

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Confirmation

Con′fir‐ma″tion (?), n. [F. confirmation, L. confirmatio.] 1. The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of...

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Confirmative

Con‐firm″a‐tive (?), a. [L. confirmativus: cf. F. confirmatif.] Tending to confirm or establish. Sherwood.— Con‐firm″a‐tive‐ly, adv.

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Confirmator

Con″fir‐ma′tor (?), n. One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer. Sir T. Browne.

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Confirmatory

Con‐firm″a‐to‐ry (?), a. Serving to confirm; corroborative.A fact confirmatory of the conclusion.I. Taylor.2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. Compton.

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Confirmedly

Con‐firm″ed‐ly (?), adv. With confirmation.

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Confirmedness

Con‐firm″ed‐ness, n. A fixed state.

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Confirmee

Con′fir‐mee″ (?), n. [F. confirmé, p. p. of confirmer.] (Law) One to whom anything is confirmed.

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Confirmer

Con‐firm″er (?), n. One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.

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Confirmingly

Con‐firm″ing‐ly, adv. In a confirming manner.

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Confiscable

Con‐fis″ca‐ble (?), a. [Cf. F. confiscable.] Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

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Confiscate

Con″fis‐cate (? or �), a. [L. confiscatus, p. p. of confiscare to confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse, treasury. See Fiscal.] Seized and appropr...

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Confiscate (2)

Con″fis‐cate (? or �; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Confiscated; p. pr. & vb. n.Confiscating.] To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.It was j...

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Confiscation

Con′fis‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. confiscatio.] The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.The confiscations following a subdue...

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Confiscator

Con″fis‐ca′tor (?), n. One who confiscates. Burke.