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instrumentary

instrumentary adjective: instrumental.

Adjective

instrumentary (comparative more instrumentary, superlative most instrumentary)

  1. (archaic) instrumental
  2. (Scotland, archaic) Pertaining to a legal instrument.
    • The nearest relations of a party by whom a deed is granted, or in whose favour it is conceived, are good instrumentary witnesses; and although it has been generally laid down by the text writers, that women cannot be instrumentary witness, it is extremely doubtful how far this is correct.1832, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, page 23

Forms of instrumentary

comparativemore instrumentary
superlativemost instrumentary

Origin of instrumentary

From instrument + -ary.

Questions about instrumentary

What does instrumentary mean?
Instrumentary means instrumental.
What part of speech is instrumentary?
Instrumentary is an adjective.

Words near instrumentary in the dictionary

  1. instrumentalness
  2. instrumentals
  3. instrumentaria
  4. instrumentarial
  5. instrumentarium
  6. instrumentary
  7. instrumentation
  8. instrumentational
  9. instrumentations
  10. instrumented
  11. instrumenting

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