certificatory

adj, noun — 2 senses

certificatory

adj

1

Serving to certify something.

certificatory

noun

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:

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