1. Of or pertaining to evidence; = EVIDENTIAL 1 a.
1810. Bentham, Packing (1821), 181. The clearing of his character … so far as concerns evidentiary trust-worthiness.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. xix. II. 56. An inscription … carries evidentiary value under the same conditions as a published writing on paper.
1879. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ix. § 2. 395. Through its power of modifying the relative force of different evidentiary considerations.
2. Furnishing evidence; having the nature of evidence. Const. of. = EVIDENTIAL 2.
1818. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, III. i. 32. The charges ought to be exhibited first; and no evidentiary matter granted, but [etc.].
1827. Bentham, Ration. Evidence, Wks. 1843, VII. 20. To treat it upon the footing of an evidentiary act, with reference to the corresponding principal act.
1845. Mill, Ess., II. 221. But they are evidentiary of a tone of thought which has prevailed so long among the superior intellects.
1875. Contemp. Rev., XXVI. 580. The upward slant … becomes an evidentiary fact of singular cogency.
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. (ed. 2), 201. It is only the adventitious or accidental or evidentiary … portion of the title in which they differ.
