reciprocatory

Adjective

reciprocatory (not comparable)

1. Synonym of reciprocating: acting or applying reciprocally between two parties.
   • […] in the year 1725, the emperor Charles having acknowledged Philip as king of Spain and of the Indies, his catholic majesty guaranteed the Ostend East India Company, among other reciprocatory concessions.1815, The Naval Chronicle, volume 34, page 51
   • The reciprocatory principle of equal securities—equal rights, is the one to which the Catholic inhabitants of this [Würtemberg] and other Protestant States in Germany submit, without being taught to call it a violation of the discipline of the church.1827, Seth William Stevenson, A Tour of France, Savoy, Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1825, volume 2, London: C. and J. Rivington, page 597

   Synonyms:

   reciprocating

2. Synonym of reciprocating: moving backwards and forwards.
   • For certain new methods of applying the vibrating or reciprocatory motion of steam or fire-engines to produce a continued rotative or circular motion round an axis or centre, and thereby to give motion to the wheels of mills, or other machines.1781, patent dated 25 October, cited in Charles Frederick Partington, A Course of Lectures on the Steam Engine, London: J. Gifford, 1826, p. 24, footnote
   • The change effected in the art of newspaper-printing, by the process of stereotypes, is scarcely inferior to that by which the late Mr. Walter applied steam-power to the printing press and certainly equal to that by which the rotary press superseded the reciprocatory action of the flat machine.1884, Samuel Smiles, chapter 7, in Men of Invention and Industry, London: John Murray, page 199

   Synonyms:

   reciprocating