a. [ad. L. type *quālificātōri-us: cf. prec. and -ORY.]
1. Having the character of qualifying, modifying or limiting; tending to qualify.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 651. That evasive, Jesuitic, qualificatory extenuation.
1830. G. P. R. James, De L’Orme, III. xii. 253. The Count would hardly hear of any qualificatory measure.
1868. Visct. Strangford, Selections, etc. (1869), II. 247. A qualificatory commonplace.
2. Such as to confer a qualification: (sense 6).
1889. Academy, 12 Oct., 233/2. Some teachers urge … that examinations should be solely qualificatory.
