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[syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Confirmatory \Con*firm"a*to*ry\, a.
Serving to confirm; corroborative.
[1913 Webster]
A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. --I. Taylor.
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2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. --Compton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
confirmatory
adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
[syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming,
confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory,
substantiating, substantiative, validating,
validatory, verificatory, verifying]