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evidential, a.|ɛvɪˈdɛnʃəl|
[f. L. ēvidenti-a + -al1.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to evidence. b. Based or resting on evidence; relying on evidence; esp. the Evidences of Christianity, as in evidential method, evidential school, evidential system.
1654W. Sclater Fun. Serm. 20 No such evidentiall verity is demonstrated in Holy Writ, as of Absolute Necessity to be believed unto salvation. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 204 It is a steady..direction of heart towards the future glory..that must be the evidential ground of thy hope to enjoy it. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. Pordage's Mystic Div. 69 The firm and evidential Probation of invisibls, things out of sight. 1772R. Hill in Fletcher Logica Genev. 58 You cannot suppose that..he intended to exclude good works in an evidential sense. 1865Mozley Mirac. i. 7 The evidential function of a miracle is based upon the common argument of design. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 380 The basis of theological science must be historical as well as evidential. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2507/1 Whately was a genuine disciple of the ‘evidential’ school. Faith is to him the conclusion drawn from historical premises.
2. Furnishing evidence; having the nature of evidence; serving to attest. Const. of.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 198 Sight of all our senses is most active, penetrative, discerning, and evidential. 1701Fleetwood Miracles 229 Those [miracles] should be Evidential ones, which God enables Men to work in order to gain belief. 1837J. Macculloch Proofs Attrib. God II. 431 Subjects evidential of the attributes of the Deity. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 94 Evidential miracles..simply prove Christianity. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 202 That Paul should have passed..from one direction of life to the very opposite is evidential of the power and significance of Christianity.
†3. Resting on documentary evidence. Obs.
(Folkingham explains that the ‘evidential’ character of a possession is that which is denoted by such terms as feodum, allodium, etc.)
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey iii. i. 65 The Propriety of Possessions intimates their particular state and condition, and may be diuided into Vocall and Euidential. Ibid. iii. ii. 66. |