The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evidential \Ev`i*den"tial\, a.
Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially,
relating to the evidences of Christianity.
--Bp. Fleetwood.
``Evidential tracks.''
--Earle.. -- Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. Of or providing evidence.
WordNet
adj. serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value" [syn: evidentiary]
Usage examples of "evidential".
This statement of mine might be considered altogether paradoxical were it not for associated evidential facts, which by proving themselves have established its correctness and truth.
In the same way that English sentences are ungrammatical without some chunk that tells you whether the action or state was or was not in the past, Aymara sentences are ungrammatical without an evidential either explicitly present or made clear by surrounding sentences.
Imagine what it would be like if the absence of an evidential in an English sentence was automatically taken as evidence that you were trying to deceive or mislead.
Through this long day of shocks and surprises, he had reached that stage of amazedness where the evidential value of sensory impressions is destroyed.
It went against his protective, controlling nature to leave Evie to hang herself with all the evidential rope he was feeding to both her and Mercer.