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Creeping.

A sepulcher. [Obs.] Weever.

Sought for; demanded. [R.] Summary on Du Bartas (1621).

A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.

Resolutive. [R.]

Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; respiratory changes. Respiratory foods. (Physiol.) See 2d Note under Food, n., 1. -- Respiratory tree (Zoöl.), the branched internal gill of certain holothurians.

Restorative. [R.]

Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

ature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace.

Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.

Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. Woolsey.

Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles. Burke.

Offering sacrifice. [R.] Sherwood.

Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution (Biol.), a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See Saltation. -- Saltatory spasm (Med.), an affection in which pressure…

The salutatory oration.

A place where things are preserved; a repository. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.

doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.