a. rare. [ad. L. type *compīlātori-us, f. compīlātor-em: see prec. and -ORY.] Belonging to a compiler or a compilation.
1818. Blackw. Mag., III. 24. Not a proof either of fecundity or of compilatory judgment.
1847. Stanley, Apostolical Age, 147. The compilatory character of St. Luke’s Gospel precludes the possibility of fixing on the intention of any particular narrative in it with as much precision as is attainable in the others.
Mod. Occupied with compilatory labors.
