Identificatory
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Serving to identify something; identifying. not-comparable
"The important distinction between descriptive and identificatory nonverbal clauses[…]"
- 2 Tending to identify oneself with someone or something; engendering association. not-comparable
"Her attitude to L-DOPA became one of detached and humorous resignation, as did her attitude to her own symptoms and disabilities; she ceased to envy the patients who were flying aloft on L-DOPA, or to view with identificatory terror those patients who had done badly on the drug[…]"
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