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Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

Exclamatory. Earle. -- Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv.

An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! [Colloq.]

Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. [Written also libellous.] -- Li"bel*ous*ly, adv.

A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]

Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. Shall names that made yuor city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction Addison.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]

Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. You must not put another scandal on him. Shak. My known virtue is from scandal free. Dryden.

Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.

ously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another. Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a grea…

A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. Holland.

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." Hayward.