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1,832 words match “TORY”

PROCURATORY a.
Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
PRODITORY a.
Treacherous. [Obs.]
PROHIBITORY a.
Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.
PROMONTORY n. 3 definitions
sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. Like one that stands upon a promontory. Shak.
PRONUNCIATORY a.
Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.
PROPITIATORY a. 2 definitions
Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. Sharp.
PROVOCATORY a.
Provocative.
PULSATORY a.
Capable of pulsating; throbbing. Sir H. Wotton. .
PUNITORY a.
d . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. A. Tucker.
PURGATORY a. 2 definitions
Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.
PURIFICATORY a.
Serving or tending to purify; purificative.
RASPATORY n.
A surgeon's rasp. Wiseman.
RATIOCINATORY a.
Ratiocinative. [R.]
RECAPITULATORY a.
Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
RECEPTORY n.
Receptacle. [Obs.] Holland.
RECOGNITORY a.
Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
RECOMMENDATORY a.
Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
RECONCILIATORY a.
Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.
RECONDITORY n.
A repository; a storehouse. [Obs.] Ash.
RECRIMINATORY a.
Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.
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