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Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

Pertaining to admission.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

Allusive. [R.] Warburton.

Collusive.

s contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

Conceding; permissive.

Conclusive. [R.]

performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.

Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide. [R.]

Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.

Delusive; fallacious. Glanvill.

Driving or thrusting away; averting. [R.] Holland.

Derisive; mocking. Shaftesbury.

A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart. Letters dimissory (Eccl.), letters given by a bishop dismissing a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A dissuasive. [R.] This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey.