"identificatory" meaning in English

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