"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Abditory :: Abditory (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.

Abjuratory :: Abjuratory (a.) Containing abjuration.

Absolutory :: Absolutory (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving.

Absolvatory :: Absolvatory (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory.

Acceleratory :: Acceleratory (a.) Accelerative.

Accessory :: Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; 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..

Accessory :: Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Same as Accessary, n..

Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts..

Acclamatory :: Acclamatory (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation..

Accusatory :: Accusatory (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel..

Additory :: Additory (a.) Tending to add; making some addition.

Adhortatory :: Adhortatory (a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory.

Adiaphory :: Adiaphory (n.) Indifference.

Adjuratory :: Adjuratory (a.) Containing an adjuration.

Adjutory :: Adjutory (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping.

Admissory :: Admissory (a.) Pertaining to admission.

Admonitory :: Admonitory (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance..

Adstrictory :: Adstrictory (a.) See Astrictory.

Adulatory :: Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address..

Advisory :: Advisory (a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory..

Advocatory :: Advocatory (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate.

Affirmatory :: Affirmatory (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.

Aleatory :: Aleatory (a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract..

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

Alleviatory :: Alleviatory (a.) Alleviative.

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