a. [ad. med.L. comminātōri-us (in F. comminatoire), f. comminātor: see -ORY.] Conveying denunciation of punishment or vengeance; threatening, denunciatory.

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1508.  Fisher, Wks., 169. The decre comminatory whiche was ony beest that toucheth the hyll … shall suffre deth.

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1605.  Answ. Supposed Discov. Rom. Doctr., 39. What comminatory letters did they write to his Maiestie.

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1649.  Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 532. The rest of the Prophecy is … Comminatory, or chiefly consisting in threatenings.

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1793.  Antiq., in Ann. Reg., 413. The comminatory thunders of the Roman pontifs.

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1890.  W. O’Brien, When we were Boys (ed. 2), 502. ‘Bah!’ he said, waving a comminatory arm at the angry crowd.

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  † b.  as sb. Obs.

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1656.  Shepherd’s Kalendar, viii. (heading), The pains of Hell comminatories of Sinnes.

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