- comminatory
- Threatening; coercive.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
comminatory
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Comminatory — Com*min a*to ry, a. [Cf. F. comminatoire.] Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
comminatory — index calumnious, critical (faultfinding), sinister Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Comminatory — In law, a comminatory is a clause inserted into a law, edict, patent, etc, describing a punishment that is to be imposed on delinquents, which, however, is not in practice executed with the rigor that is conveyed in the description, or not even… … Wikipedia
comminatory denunciative denunciatory — inculpative inculpative adj. Inculpatory. [Narrower terms: {accusatorial, accusatory, accusing}; {comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory}; {condemnatory, condemning ; {criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory ; {damnatory, damning… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
comminatory — adjective see commination … New Collegiate Dictionary
comminatory — See commination. * * * … Universalium
comminatory — adjective Of or pertaining to commination … Wiktionary
comminatory — adj. punishing, threatening, vengeful … English contemporary dictionary
comminatory — [ kɒmɪnəˌt(ə)ri] adjective rare threatening, punitive, or vengeful … English new terms dictionary
comminatory — com·mi·na·to·ry … English syllables
