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One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. Fallows.

Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.

mmons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

One who consoles or comforts. Johnson.

tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke.

One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. 2 Sam. xv. 31.

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

pent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.

A constructer.

Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. Bancroft.

One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne.

One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer. Sir T. Browne.

A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors. R. S. Poole.

See Contortion.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger.

A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.

One who makes or practices contortions.

Expressing contortion.