Words that rhyme with purgatory
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amendatory
adj 1: effecting amendment; "added amendatory phrases to the text" -
auditory
adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive] -
certificatory
adj 1: serving to certify or endorse authoritatively -
derogatory
adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging] -
excitatory
adj 1: (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate [syn: excitant, excitative, excitatory] -
exculpatory
adj 1: clearing of guilt or blame [ant: inculpative, inculpatory] -
exhortatory
adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory] -
feudatory
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] -
glory
n 1: a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself" [syn: glory, glorification] 2: brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn: glory, resplendence, resplendency] 3: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole] v 1: rejoice proudly -
hereditary
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] -
inhibitory
adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing] -
interrogatory
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] -
invitatory
adj 1: conveying an invitation; "a brief invitatory note" -
judicatory
n 1: the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system] -
laudatory
adj 1: full of or giving praise; "a laudatory remark" [syn: laudatory, praiseful, praising] -
mandatory
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] -
obligatory
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" -
predatory
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] -
presbytery
n 1: building reserved for the officiating clergy -
salutatory
n 1: an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) [syn: salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory] -
story
n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" 3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story] 4: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] 5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious" [syn: report, news report, story, account, write up] 6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle] -
supererogatory
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] -
territory
n 1: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes [syn: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion] 2: an area of knowledge or interest; "his questions covered a lot of territory" 3: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil" [syn: territory, soil] -
mandatary
n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory] -
prohibitory
adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory] -
piscatory
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing; "a piscatory life" [syn: piscatorial, piscatory] -
sudatory
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] -
auscultatory
adj 1: of or relating to auscultation -
vesicatory
adj 1: causing blisters [syn: vesicatory, vesicant] n 1: a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) [syn: vesicant, vesicatory] -
emendatory
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exhibitory
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explicatory
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expurgatory
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invocatory
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laevorotatory
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recommendatory
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aurae
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potatory
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saltatory
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advocatory
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compurgatory
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manducatory
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retardatory
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