Definition of Confirmatory

1. Adjective. Serving to support or corroborate. "Collateral evidence"


Definition of Confirmatory

1. a. . Serving to confirm; corroborative.

Definition of Confirmatory

1. Adjective. That which confirms, as one's word. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confirmatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confirmatory

confinity
confirm
confirmability
confirmable
confirmance
confirmand
confirmands
confirmation
confirmation bias
confirmation hearing
confirmation name
confirmation names
confirmational
confirmations
confirmative
confirmatory (current term)
confirme
confirmed
confirmed bachelor
confirmedly
confirmedness
confirmednesses
confirmee
confirmees
confirmer
confirmers
confirming
confirmingly
confirmities
confirms

Literary usage of Confirmatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"(1) confirmatory Since accomplices are competent witnesses, it necessarily ... Nor need it appear from the confirmatory evidence, that he speaks truth with ..."

2. Of the Limitation of Actions, and of Liens, Against Real Estate, in Pennsylvania by Eli Kirk Price (1857)
"OF THE BAR OF confirmatory STATUTES. confirmatory acts having the effect of acts ... In 1711 another similar confirmatory act was passed, and repealed 23d ..."

3. Electrons: Or, The Nature and Properties of Negative Electricity by Oliver Lodge (1907)
"confirmatory Measurements of Charge. A. confirmatory measure of the charge e, can be made by first observing the rate of fall of a cloud condensed round the ..."

4. The Lancet (1842)
"And Ireland, and probably other countries, would yield confirmatory evidence if it was important for me to look for it at present. ..."

5. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1887)
"A Collection of the most important recent dis- coveries, especially in Western Asia and Egypt, derived from the highest attainable antiquity; confirmatory ..."

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