Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to fish or fishing.
- adj. Involved in or dependent on fishing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as piscatory.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing
Etymologies
- From Latin piscātor ("fisherman"), from piscis ("fish"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin piscātōrius, from piscātor, fisherman, from piscārī, to fish, from piscis, fish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Can there be a better piscatorial lunch then a plate of the finest of the sea?”
“If the fisherman has the wit to put his (or her) bottles in the stream one presumes they have nearby for piscatorial endeavors, the Malt beverages need never be warm ...”
“Despite the fact that I am not a piscatorial person I've recently inherited a fishing diary (bound in red leather by Asprey & Co Ltd) that covers the decade 1933 to 1943.”
“The only piscatorial medical knowledge one needs in regard to an ailing pet fish is a knack for estimating how many flushes it will take to send little Nemo down the toilet ...”
“Yes | No | Report from bugg255 wrote 1 year 1 week ago woe unto thee that becomes addicted to piscatorial pursuits ... and i ain't kiddin 'niether great story and good pics”
“Yes | No | Report from bugg255 wrote 51 weeks 5 days ago woe unto thee that becomes addicted to piscatorial pursuits ... and i ain't kiddin 'niether great story and good pics”
“Yes | No | Report from Visitor wrote 1 year 15 weeks ago piscatorial, no?”
“So crack open a cold Bud Light, and say "cheese," oh master of the piscatorial self-portrait, because you're all about grippin 'and grinnin' ... and even if Giselle Bundchen could fish, she'd have nothing on you.”
“Phil is thinking about a galaxy, while Henry is going for something more piscatorial, in the best tradition of scientific tattoos.”
“Actually I think I can safely put my hand on my gills and say that you don't need to be even vaguely piscatorial (look at me) to enjoy it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piscatorial’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
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phrontistery - p
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pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Favorite Words
pablum, maundy, histrionic, adamant, ascribe, verbiage, insouciant, erudite, gregarious, superfluous, banal, obdurate and 280 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
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Adjectival Arcana
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extrapolate, Abderian, obstreperous, iconoclasm, tapsalteerie, agelast, ignimbrite, Abecedarian, Abligurition, Accubation, Aeolist, agerasia and 123 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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Sartor Resartus / Irving's The Sketch...
anglo-dandiacal, egregious, somnambulism, clothes, adventitous, atrabiliar, mephitic, psychical, circumambient, tumuli, encomiums, wesand and 27 more...
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Fishful thinking
"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absent-mindedly transformed into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny multicolored fish."
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set 11
dutiful, factotum, waif, seminal, sleazy, exacting, anodyne, bland, cozen, assay, falter, pontificial and 47 more...
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tangential
fragmented catch all
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Tweets
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sarahatlee I think of piscatorial with a double meaning: of or pertaining to fish; of or pertaining to pictures of fish. (pictorial + pisc-) Apr 6, 2009
chained_bear "These piscatorial targets sometimes move at over thirty miles an hour, and I must hit a bull's eye of a few square inches."
--Steven Callahan, Adrift, 209 May 15, 2008