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dejectory

UK/dɪˈdʒɛktəɹi/

dejectory adjective: having power, or tending, to cast down.

Adjective

dejectory (comparative more dejectory, superlative most dejectory)

  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down.
  2. Promoting evacuations by stool.
    • The physician should devote himself to this during several days so that the humor can be easily evacuated by dejectory medications1994, Donald Beecher, transl., A Treatise on Lovesickness

Forms of dejectory

comparativemore dejectory
superlativemost dejectory

Origin of dejectory

Latin dejector (“a dejecter”).

Questions about dejectory

What does dejectory mean?
Dejectory means having power, or tending, to cast down.
What part of speech is dejectory?
Dejectory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dejectory?
Dejectory is pronounced /dɪˈdʒɛktəɹi/ (UK).

Words near dejectory in the dictionary

  1. dejecteth
  2. dejecting
  3. dejection
  4. dejections
  5. dejectly
  6. dejectory
  7. dejects
  8. dejecture
  9. dejectures
  10. dejellied
  11. dejeration

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