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

a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent. "Contradictory assertions." South.

joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton. Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman. Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer in producing the injury, and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury. Wh…

Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.

Containing or making correction; corrective.

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.

Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.

Crinitory. Craig.

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

Lying down; recumbent. [R.]

ng; reprehensory; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.

Doo "Damnatory invectives." Hallam.

Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [Obs.] "Deambulatory actors." Bp. Morton.

Deceptive. [R.]

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

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.

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.

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