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Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.…

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

rial place. [Obs.] Ayliffe. My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church. Evelyn.

Tending to edification. Bp. Hall.

Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.

A laboratory. [Obs.]

Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.

Tending to elucidate; elucidative. [R.]

Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. Dr. H. More.

Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. "Emancipatory laws." G. Eliot.

Serving or tending to emasculate.

Pertaining to emendation; corrective. "Emendatory criticism."" Johnson.

Diuretic.

Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry. [R.] "Emulatory officiousness." Bp. Hall.

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.

Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.

A purgative.