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Threatening; menacing. Bacon.

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

Tending or serving to modify; modifying. Max Müller.

nstructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.

Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; - - applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.

Cleansing; having power to cleanse. [Obs.]

Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters. Howell.

Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.

Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to negotiation.

Not contributing.

ned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.

Nuncupative; oral.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory. Bancroft. The objurgatory question of the Pharisees. Paley.

mance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jer. Taylor.

Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn.

Ratifying; confirming by sealing. [Obs.] Samuel Ward (1643)

The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Obs. or R.] Bacon. Bp. Fell.