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miniatory

miniatory is the obsolete spelling of minatory.

Meaning of minatory

Adjective

minatory (comparative more minatory, superlative most minatory)

  1. Threatening, menacing.
    • […]the Place de Grève, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel;[…]1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Usher Maillard”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 259

Forms of miniatory

comparativemore miniatory
superlativemost miniatory
alternative formminatory

Questions about miniatory

What is miniatory the obsolete spelling of?
Miniatory is the obsolete spelling of minatory.

Words near miniatory in the dictionary

  1. miniates
  2. miniating
  3. miniation
  4. miniator
  5. miniators
  6. miniatory
  7. miniatoside
  8. miniatous
  9. miniature
  10. miniature donkey
  11. miniature golf

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