Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Balancing; moving like a balance as it tends to become stationary; oscillating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.
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- adjective
Balancing ; tending towards anequipoise .
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Examples
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The band, who identify as libratory socialists, said at first they thought Chavez was just a populist who knew how to talk, as a result of the media in Spain.
Venezuela Analysis 2008
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Joyce used the term "libratory" and Doug reinforced it with talking about the library as a "production studio" resource for his students.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Joyce used the term "libratory" and Doug reinforced it with talking about the library as a "production studio" resource for his students.
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In this case, the force of the "liberatory" might be shaken loose by the more openly libratory (for oscillatory) effects of subvocal text production.
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This libratory impulse is clearly the primary motivation behind the major novella of the triptych Up in Montifer, in which Clara, the heroine, is equipped with a freed slave as a companion.
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They regard mothers as *essential* to organizing and creating a new world--which I think is amazing and libratory--but at the same time, sadly, not a usual thought--even around "feminist" organizing.
BFP Speaks, So You Know It’s Good Renee 2009
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They regard mothers as *essential* to organizing and creating a new world--which I think is amazing and libratory--but at the same time, sadly, not a usual thought--even around "feminist" organizing.
Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009
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I love the image of the library/libratory as a working hub where students go to interact and work with a librarian and each other on their projects.
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Through the understanding of the perspectival aspect of knowledge claims, standpoint epistemology can create libratory knowledge that can be leveraged to subvert oppressive systems.
Jane Addams Hamington, Maurice 2007
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Horrox as depending upon the libratory motion of the apsides, and the change which takes place in the eccentricity of the lunar orbit.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
sashamd commented on the word libratory
A very slow oscillation, real or apparent, of a satellite as viewed from the larger celestial body around which it revolves.
March 14, 2008
yarb commented on the word libratory
Is this a noun or an adjective? Or both? A good word to work into a poem.
March 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word libratory
Or the bathroom of your local library. ;->
March 14, 2008
sashamd commented on the word libratory
Or your Conservative friend born in October...
April 17, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word libratory
Or having to do with a Libratorr.
April 17, 2008