a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction |
a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism | |
additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | |
information that confirms or verifies | |
making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | |