Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tending to preserve; preservative.
- n. pl. preservatories (-riz). A preservative.
- n. An apparatus for preserving substances for food, or a building where the process of preserving food-products is carried on.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A preservative.
- n. obsolete A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Preservative.
- n. obsolete A preservative.
- n. A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.
Examples
“The male/female groupings were apparent from early on and Tina, who was most spectacularly genuinely herself, at least in comparison to the self-preservatory antics of others, was quickly eliminated, but managed, thankfully, to give Coolio a well deserved dressing down.”
“It might also be considered a self-preservatory reflex by the writer.”
“A ten-guinea gown may be sacrificed in half an hour, and the indolence of your disposition would lead you to prefer this sacrifice to the trouble of taking any preservatory precautions, or thinking about the matter at all.”
“As blankly inexperienced of painting and sculpture as any Bushmen, they received this sudden enormous dose of those arts with an instant, self-preservatory incapacity to swallow even a small amount of them.”
“It's a touch of the sun, which I would give you to understand," he continued with a self-preservatory flash, for it was an overcast day in June,”
“A preservatory," said Tom, rather contemptuously, "why, who would think what you meant, if you say a 'air-garden?”
“I'll have towers, and bay-windows, and piazzers, with checkered work all 'round 'em, and a preservatory, and all kinds of new fangled doin's.”
“Although unfortunately whisky does not age in the bottle, it is still a priceless opportunity to determine the taste and makeup of a delightful beverage laid down over a hundred years ago, stored in a particularly preservatory manner!”
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