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• Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 136. From the entry laurel
• The pounded leaves of the willow, drunk in a concoction, were formerly reputed to diminish amatory desires.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 249. From the entry willow
• Petrarch’s amatory conflict blurs into an ideological one about the poet’s responsibilities to the structures of power in his time.1994, William J. Kennedy, “Authorizing Petrarch in England”, in Authorizing Petrarch, Cornell University Press, page 226. From the entry naufrageous
• It has been at least an academic tradition, if no more, that mathematical studies militate against amatory inclinations.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 149. From the entry militate
• In Turkey, Iran, and Syria salep is popular as a restorative and also as a provocative to amatory activity.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213. From the entry provocative
• The mollusca, and testaceous animals in particular, have been considered to be of potency in an amatory sense.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 157. From the entry testaceous
• Various lewd contrivances, among them the Chinese ‘hedge-hog,’ ovoid objects, and similar apparatus have all been perversely used as amatory stimulants.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215. From the entry Chinese hedgehog
• An anti-aphrodisiac, suggested in Hindu erotological literature as a way for women to negate amatory challenges, is to bathe in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 52. From the entry buttermilk
• Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75. From the entry peripatetic
• It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45. From the entry triffidian
• Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85. From the entry excitant

Meaning of amatory

1. adjective Of or relating to love, especially sexual love.

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How do you use amatory in a sentence?

Amatory is used as an adjective. For example: “In the desperate search for amatory satisfactions, the most monstrous ingredients have throughout the ages, been sought and compounded into electuaries and pastilles, philtres and ointments.”

What is a short sentence with amatory?

“Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.”

What does amatory mean?

Amatory means of or relating to love, especially sexual love.