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Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.

Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.

Spit out, or as if spit out. "Exsputory lines." Cowper.

Tending to extenuate or palliate. Croker.

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.

Extirpative.

Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.

An issue.

or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. [Obs.]

See Feudatory.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

on of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

A machine for forming threads. [Obs.] W. Tooke.

Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.

See Fumitory. [Obs.]