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Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.

The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

ng or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

Repulsive; driving back.

Tending to rescind; rescinding. To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633. Bp. Burnet.

Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson.

Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. Story.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve…

Tending to persuade; suasive.

Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.

Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray.

Not involving controversy. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.…

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

n the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson.

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.