comminatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. containing warning of punishment
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How To Use comminatory In A Sentence

  • So the instruments were tuned and the comminatory verses sung.
  • The strong and comminatory attacks on his adversaries, of whom he even singles out some, are a marked feature of this period of his career.
  • During the session of 1434, he was commissioned by Archbishop Chichele to draw up, along with others, certain comminatory articles to be proclaimed by the clergy in their parishes four times a year.
  • This is a great question upon which the solution of many others depends, and for the examination of it, the hour of the comminatory decree of arrest, and that of the real decree may be remarked to advantage. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • But presently he began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished.
  • On the 25th the German Ambassador proceeds to the Quai d'Orsay, to notify in comminatory terms that Berlin sides with Vienna; panic in the different Bourses; recall of the Austrian Ambassador from Belgrade, notwithstanding the almost complete acceptance of the draconian conditions he presented twenty-four hours before. The Diary of a French Army Chaplain
  • Captain Tom went sailing from island to island, appearing unexpectedly in various localities, beaming, noisy, anecdotal, commendatory or comminatory, but always welcome. An Outcast Of The Islands
  • But presently Arran began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished. The Hermit and the Wild Woman
  • A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, was drawn up in three versions.
  • At first Mrs. Greyne contented herself with daily letters, but latterly she had resorted to wires, explanatory, condemnatory, hortatory, and even comminatory. The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905
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