单词 | confirmee |
释义 | confirmeen. 1. Law. One to whom a confirmation is made. ΚΠ 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. x. §631. 271 More properly the word of the confirmer then of the confirmee. 1648 W. Sheppard Touch-stone Common Assur. xviii. 312 In every good confirmation tending to confirm an estate..There must be a good confirmor, and a good confirmee. 2. Christian Church. One who is confirmed. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confirmation > [noun] > person having undergone confirmee1885 1885 Bp. Thorold Charge 22 A comparison of our confirmees during the two years. 1886 Church Times 19 Feb. 133/3 The wretched proportion of male confirmees to female in London. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1642 |
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