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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.
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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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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]