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One who cites. [R]

Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.

An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

Mutual adaption. R. Owen.

The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.

lied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.

Joint estate. Smolett.

o think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon.

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. "Fixed in cogitation deep." Milton.

Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

A struggling; a contention. [Obs.] Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. Dr. H. More.

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments. [R.] Commentate upon it, and return it enriched. Lamb.

The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

The office or occupation of a commentator.