substantiating

Adjective

Synonyms: collateral confirmative confirming confirmatory corroborative corroboratory substantiative validating validatory verificatory verifying

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

serving to support or corroborate“collateral evidence”Synonyms: collateral confirmative confirming confirmatory corroborative corroboratory substantiative validating validatory verificatory verifying

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Substantiate \Sub*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Substantiating.]

1.To make to exist; to make real. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]

2.To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. [1913 Webster]

Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]