a. [f. L. type *confirmātōri-us: see prec. and -ORY.]
1. That confirms; having the property of confirming; corroborative. Const. of.
1636. Heylin, Sabbath, II. 53. In a Decretall … confirmatorie of the former custome.
1811. J. Parkinson, Org. Rem., III. 452. The result … strongly confirmatory of the Mosaic account.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., II. vii. (1851), 207. Strong confirmatory facts.
† 2. Relating to, or of the nature of, the rite of confirmation. Obs.
1686. Bp. Compton, Episcopalia, 35 (T.). It is not improbable, that they [the Apostles] had in their eye the confirmatory usage in the synagogues, to which none were admitted, before they were of age to undertake for themselves.
