communicatory

Adjective

communicatory (comparative more communicatory, superlative most communicatory)

1. Of, relating to, or suitable for communication.

   Synonyms:

   communicational

2. (historical, rare) Chiefly in communicatory letters (or letters communicatory): of or relating to communion.
   • Thirdly, before there was one ſupreme or vniuerſall Biſhop, there was vnitie and communion betweene all the Biſhops in Chriſtendome, whoſe courſe to preſerue vnitie in che Churches and to auoid Schiſme, was to communicate che confeſſions of their faith one with an other by their communicatorie...1611, George Downame, “That Bishops Were Superior in Power, and First in the Power of Ordination”, in A Defence of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the L[ate] Bishop of Bath and Welles...
   • It is true, in the Primitive Churches there were ſundry prudential acts of Communion paſs’d between them, ſuch as their formed and communicatory Letters, by which the holy Biſhops gave an account to each other of the ſtate and condition of their reſpective Churches, and conſulted each others...1686 July 6 (Gregorian calendar), John Scott, “Of the Nature and Constitution of Christ’s Kingdom”, in The Christian Life. Part II. Wherein That Fundamental Principle of Christian Duty, the Doctrine...