comminatory

• “I detected something comminatory in his yellow, emaciated countenance, but I believe now he was simply startled by my youth.”

  The Arrow of Gold

• “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

• “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

• “But presently Arran began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished.”

  The Hermit and the Wild Woman

• “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

• “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

• “He read his danger in the stony eyes of the girl; and in the very act of leaping to his feet he heard sharply, detached on the comminatory voice of the storm the brief report of a shot which half stunned him, in the manner of a blow.”

  Victory

• “She has gone after him," stated Fyne in comminatory tones.”

  Chance A Tale in Two Parts

• “So the instruments were tuned and the comminatory verses sung.”

  The Mayor of Casterbridge

• “The lawyers read the opinion which they had studied over for several days; and all agreed that the judge-conservator could remove the suspension that he had imposed on the archbishop, in order to obtain from him the said protest or libel, as they said that the said suspension was comminatory.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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