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indagatory

indagatory adjective: indagative.

Adjective

indagatory (comparative more indagatory, superlative most indagatory)

  1. indagative
    • As Boyle described them, "experiments of discovery, or as for brevity sake I sometimes call them, indagatory, detecting, or exploratory ways of trial," may often use methods "very near of kind and sometimes perhaps coincident" to probatory experiments […]1995, Rose-Mary Sargent, The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment

Forms of indagatory

comparativemore indagatory
superlativemost indagatory

Questions about indagatory

What does indagatory mean?
Indagatory means indagative.
What part of speech is indagatory?
Indagatory is an adjective.

Words near indagatory in the dictionary

  1. indagation
  2. indagations
  3. indagative
  4. indagator
  5. indagators
  6. indagatory
  7. indagatrices
  8. indagatrix
  9. indalpine
  10. indamage
  11. indamaged

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