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

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

Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

Having power, or tending, to cast down.

Holding a delegated position. Nash.

That which blots out. [Obs.] "A deletory of sin." Jer. Taylor.

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative. Johnson.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.

Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n.

Serving to deplete.

A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.

ng to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.