ppl. a. [f. AFFIRM + -ED.]
† 1. Made firm, established, strengthened, confirmed. Obs.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 7356. Afeormed faste is this deray; Hostage y-take, and treuth y-plight.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 51. He had hoped to haue turned her, but she was so afermed in goodnesse, that it wolde not be.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Cyrurg. In the vpper roundnes therof is affyrmed the holownesse of the pyt or morteys bones.
† 2. Confirmed, corroborated (by new statements). Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Affermyd, or grawntyd be worde, Affirmatus.
1552–5. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (1845), 149. A story, written by a Spaniard … and affirmed by many godly and well learned men.
3. Maintained, positively asserted, declared.
1611. Cotgr., Affirmé, affirmed, avouched.
1641. Ld. Brooke, Disc. Nat. Episc., I. v. 21. To an Affirm’d Syllogisme, every part must be affirm’d.
Mod. The picture affirmed to have been stolen.
