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ADMINICULATE, v. Sc.law: To support by corroboratory evidence.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian II. xi. 279:
Bolstered up or supported, or, according to the law phrase, adminiculated, by other presumptive circumstances. †Adminiculate also occurs as the pa.p.Sc. 1678 Fountainhall Decis. (1759) I. 10:
A bond wanting witnesses could not be adminiculate nor made up by extraneous witnesses.Ags. 1729 Trial of James Carnegie 15:
An extra-judicial confession, adminiculated with other circumstances.
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