Confirmatory

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Confirmatory \Con*firm"a*to*ry\, a.
     Serving to confirm; corroborative.
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           A fact confirmatory of the conclusion.   --I. Taylor.
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     2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. --Compton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  confirmatory
       adj : serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
             [syn: {collateral}, {confirmative}, {confirming}, {corroborative},
              {corroboratory}, {substantiating}, {substantiative}, {validating},
              {validatory}, {verificatory}, {verifying}]