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Webster 1913 Edition


Confirmatory

Con-firm′a-to-ry

,
Adj.
Serving to confirm; corroborative.
A fact
confirmatory
of the conclusion.
I. Taylor.
2.
Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
Compton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Confirmatory

CONFIRMATORY

,
Adj.
1.
That serves to confirm; giving additional strength, force or stability, or additional assurance or evidence.
2.
Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.

Definition 2024


confirmatory

confirmatory

English

Adjective

confirmatory (comparative more confirmatory, superlative most confirmatory)

  1. Serving to confirm something.
    • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 41,
      I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
      "Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. [] "
    • 1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43,
      The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis.

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