a. Accusatory. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. By way accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Adaptive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Admonitory. [ R. ] “An admonitorial tone.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Amatorious. ] Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory;
adv. In an amatorial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Amatory. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Ancestral. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. With regard to ancestors. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to
a. Auditory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers.
PJC ]
a. Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. “Their compurgatorial oath.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. consistorial. ] Of or pertaining to a consistory. “Consistorial laws.” Hooker. “Consistorial courts.” Bp. Hoadley. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. [ 1913 Webster ]
You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators;
adj. of or pertaining to curator;
a. Decretory; authoritative. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Dedicatory. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. dictatorial. ]
Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Dictatorial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. directorial. ]
Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Disquisitory. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor;
n. A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
adv. In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Electoral. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. équatorial. ] Of or pertaining to the equator;
n. (Astron.) An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an
☞ The term equatorial, or equatorial instrument, is sometimes applied to any astronomical instrument which has its principal axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to an escritoire. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ LL. executorialis. ] Of or pertaining to an executive. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. ex&unr_; + territorial. ] Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction. --
n.
a. Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial. --
n. The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. (Internat. Law), A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation. Wheaton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. (Math.)
a. [ L. gubernator governor. See Gabernate. ] Pertaining to a governor, or to government. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. historialis: cf. F. historial. ] Historical. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. historien. ]
Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]
Great captains should be good historians. South. [ 1913 Webster ]