identificatory

Adjective

identificatory (not comparable)

1. Serving to identify something; identifying.
   • The important distinction between descriptive and identificatory nonverbal clauses[…]1996, Jan Joosten, The Syriac language of the Peshitta and old Syriac versions of Matthew, page 86
   • Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?1989, Frank Kuppner, A Very Quiet Street, page 72
2. Tending to identify oneself with someone or something; engendering association.
   • 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[…]1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings