'Substantiating' definitions:
Definition of 'substantiating'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
Definition of 'Substantiating'
From: GCIDE
- Substantiate \Sub*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Substantiating.]
- 1. To make to exist; to make real. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. [1913 Webster]
- Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]