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commemoratory

commemoratory adjective: pertaining to commemoration.

Adjective

commemoratory (comparative more commemoratory, superlative most commemoratory)

  1. Pertaining to commemoration.
  2. (rare) Comemmorative
    • The succeeding paschal sacrifices, though commemoratory of the first, yet varied something from it.1695, George Hooper, A Discourse concerning Lent, 271

Forms of commemoratory

comparativemore commemoratory
superlativemost commemoratory

Origin of commemoratory

First attested in 1695; borrowed from New Latin commemorātōrius, from Latin commemorō. Cognate with French commémoratoire, by surface analysis, commemorate + -ory.

Questions about commemoratory

What does commemoratory mean?
Commemoratory means pertaining to commemoration.
What part of speech is commemoratory?
Commemoratory is an adjective.

Words near commemoratory in the dictionary

  1. commemoratively
  2. commemorativeness
  3. commemoratives
  4. commemorator
  5. commemorators
  6. commemoratory
  7. commemorial
  8. commemorization
  9. commemorizations
  10. commemorize
  11. commemorized

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