a. rare. [f. prec.: see -ORY.] = CONSUMMATIVE.
1648. ‘T. Verax,’ Relat. & Observ., I. 147. Secret Examinations … some preparatory only … and some consummatory, laying the Axe to the root at the first blow.
1817. G. S. Faber, Eight Dissert. (1845), I. 357. Unless we allow the preparatory and shadowy Levitical Church to be privileged infinitely above the consummatory and substantial Christian Church.
