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Acting in competition; competing; rival.

Serving to fulfill. Completory of ancient presignifications. Barrow.

from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.] To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.

fying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

Expressing condolence. Smart.

Having the property of conducting. [R.]

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] "A conservatory of life." Jer. Taylor.

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

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

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

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.