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A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.

One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. [Obs.]

One who commemorates.

Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.

Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

The office or occupation of a commentator.

Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.

One who pities.

Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs.] Foxe.

One who communicates. Boyle.

Imparting knowledge or information. Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow.

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

Same as Impanator.

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

Serving to compel; compulsory. [R.]