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One who causes. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who enters a caveat.

One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.

Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.

or pertaining to dinner or supper. [R.] The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment. Sir T. Browne.

An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century. [R.]

One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

A chanter.

A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.

Chylifactive.

One who, or that which, circulates.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.…

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

Adjointing the shore.

y circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

One who sails round. W. Guthrie.

turning, rolling, or whirling round.

One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.