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Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic. Climbing fumitory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.

Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton.

Gladiatorial. [R.]

. Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. A. Seward.

Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.

Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory. The usual groundwork of such gratulatory odes. Bp. Horsley.

Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.

Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.

Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. Ld. Lytton.

Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

Hesitating. R. North.

l statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.

Serving to illustrate.

Imperative. [R.]

Containing or expressing entreaty. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Supplicatory; entreating. [R.] Carlyle.