a. [See prec. and -ORY2; cf. OF. testificatoire (1387).] Of such a kind as to testify, or serve as evidence.

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1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 24. They shall haue … not one stone of thy Temple or Sanctuarie testificatory against them.

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1821.  Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), I. xxii. 417. This morning came a decent testificatory letter from Buller.

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1834.  Fraser’s Mag., IX. 169. A Fanatic … conceives the workings of his own mind … to be testificatory of the truth of opinion.

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