confirmatory

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confirmatory - 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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confirmatory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  confirmatory
      adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
             [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming,
             confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory,
             substantiating, substantiative, validating,
             validatory, verificatory, verifying]