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Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

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

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

Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.

Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly, adv.

Full of love; amatory.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

Amatory. [R.] Johnson.

Amatory. [Obs.] "Amatorious poem." Milton.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.

A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

In a defamatory manner.

Defamatory. [Obs.]

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.