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clamatory

clamatory adjective: crying out, calling out; claiming, demanding.

Adjective

clamatory (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Crying out, calling out; claiming, demanding.
    • Some persons say that it [the "clivia"] was a clamatory, others, again, that it was a prohibitory, bird. We also find a bird mentioned by Nigidius as the “subis," which breaks the eggs of the eagle.1855, The Natural History of Pliny, page 493
    • […] dazzling white clouds and the intensest blue, casting a powder of wonderful green hither and thither among the trees and rousing all the birds to tumultuous rejoicings; a rousing day, a clamatory insistent day, a veritable herald of summer. The stir of that anticipation was in the air, the warm...1899, Herbert George Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple, page 7

Origin of clamatory

Probably from the stem of Latin clamatus + -ory; equivalent to claim + -atory. Compare exclamatory, declamatory, reclamatory.

Questions about clamatory

What does clamatory mean?
Clamatory means crying out, calling out; claiming, demanding.
What part of speech is clamatory?
Clamatory is an adjective.

Words near clamatory in the dictionary

  1. clamantly
  2. clamation
  3. clamations
  4. clamato
  5. clamatorial
  6. clamatory
  7. clamatos
  8. clambake
  9. clambaked
  10. clambakes
  11. clambaking

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