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deviatory

deviatory adjective: tending to deviate.

Adjective

deviatory (comparative more deviatory, superlative most deviatory)

  1. Tending to deviate.
    • And I do not question but to satisfie your Scruples, and remove your Prejudices about the Deviatory Motion of the Atoms, the Bigness of the Sun, and the reasonableness of the Improvements made by Epicurus upon Democritus.1702, Samuel Parker, Tully's Five Books de Finibus

Forms of deviatory

comparativemore deviatory
superlativemost deviatory

Origin of deviatory

From deviate + -ory.

Questions about deviatory

What does deviatory mean?
Deviatory means tending to deviate.
What part of speech is deviatory?
Deviatory is an adjective.

Words near deviatory in the dictionary

  1. deviations
  2. deviative
  3. deviator
  4. deviatoric
  5. deviators
  6. deviatory
  7. devic
  8. device
  9. device addiction
  10. device driver
  11. device drivers

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