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certificatory

certificatory adjective: serving to certify something.

Adjective

certificatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to certify something.

Noun

certificatory (plural certificatories)

  1. (archaic) A certificate.
    • The archbishop commissioned his chancellor to receive the bishops' certificatories, and having pronounced those who had not obeyed the present summons contumacious, he adjourned the Convocation.1872, Walter Farquhar Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury: Middle-age period, page 344

Forms of certificatory

pluralcertificatories

Questions about certificatory

What does certificatory mean?
Certificatory means serving to certify something.
What part of speech is certificatory?
Certificatory can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near certificatory in the dictionary

  1. certifications
  2. certificative
  3. certificator
  4. certificatories
  5. certificators
  6. certificatory
  7. certified
  8. certified accountant
  9. certified accountants
  10. certified check
  11. certified checks

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