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Decretory; authoritative. Sir T. Browne.

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

Dedicatory.

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.

Passing over the borders. [R.] Mitford.

Pertaining to a diary; daily.

Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving.

Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.

irectory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport. Burke.

Disquisitory.

Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. editorial content

In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.

Electoral. Burke.

Same as Ambassadorial.

Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

In or of the country. [R.] Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey.

Epigastric.

Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.

So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.