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risons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living…

Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

A laboratory. [Obs.]

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.

Supplicatory; entreating. [R.] Carlyle.

experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.

Restorative. [R.]

rpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.

called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. I. Remsen -Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic. -- Carbon light (Elec.), an extremely brilliant electric light prod…

The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture [Obs.]

a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow.

gest or known truth; practical test; poof. A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, not determinant in a few hours. J. Adams.

Exploratory.

Long-windedness. American longiloquence in oratory. Fitzed. Hall.

gal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

A laboratory. [Obs.]