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A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

In a declaratory manner.

on, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature. Declaratory act (Law), an act or statute which sets forth more clearly, and declares what is, the existing law.

An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.

ng a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone. Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.

One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

Decretory; authoritative. Sir T. Browne.

In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.

Established by a decree; definitive; settled. The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. South.

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

Dedicatory.

Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.

The pilot whale or blackfish.

A defaulter or embezzler. [Modern]

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight.

Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.