Words that rhyme with compurgatory

adj 1: effecting amendment; "added amendatory phrases to the text"

adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive]

adj 1: serving to certify or endorse authoritatively

adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]

adj 1: (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate [syn: excitant, excitative, excitatory]

adj 1: clearing of guilt or blame [ant: inculpative, inculpatory]

adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]

adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship" 2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365" n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]

adj 1: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" [syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible] 2: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible]

adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing]

adj 1: relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation [syn: interrogative, interrogatory] [ant: asserting(a), declarative, declaratory] n 1: formal systematic questioning [syn: interrogation, examination, interrogatory]

adj 1: conveying an invitation; "a brief invitatory note"

n 1: the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system]

adj 1: full of or giving praise; "a laudatory remark" [syn: laudatory, praiseful, praising]

adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required] n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory] 2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate, mandatory]

adj 1: morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution" [ant: optional] 2: required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies"

adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [syn: marauding, predatory, raiding] 2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous] 3: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]

n 1: building reserved for the officiating clergy

n 1: a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse" 2: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

n 1: an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) [syn: salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory]

adj 1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus]

n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory]

adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing; "a piscatory life" [syn: piscatorial, piscatory]

n 1: a medicine that causes or increases sweating [syn: sudorific, sudatory] 2: a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths [syn: sudatorium, sudatory]

adj 1: of or relating to auscultation

adj 1: causing blisters [syn: vesicatory, vesicant] n 1: a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) [syn: vesicant, vesicatory]