-md adjective
Etymology: Middle English confermed chronic, inveterate, from past participle of confermen to confirm
: made firm or established (as by stengthening, accustoming, or settling by long continuance, habitual usage, or determined or expressed preference):
a. : made resolute : encouraged, fortified
southern zealots confirmed by early successes at Bull Run
b. : given to habit so long-continued or to a way of acting or thinking so resolutely adhered to that change is unlikely
confirmed pedestrians like my father and me — George Santayana
c. : marked by long continuance : deeply ingrained : constantly practiced
like all other confirmed habits … easier to obey than to break — Ellen Glasgow
d. : having received the rite of confirmation
Synonyms: see inveterate