Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place in which things are reserved or kept.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place in which things are reserved or kept.
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- noun A place in which things are
reserved orkept . - adjective
reserving something
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- The reservatory clause proposed in our Memorial is what is usual in royal grants; and in the present case, the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council, we hope, will be of opinion, it is quite sufficient, more especially as we are able to prove to their Lordships, that there are no "possessions," within the boundaries of the lands under consideration, which are held "_under legal titles_."
Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 Great Britain. Board of Trade
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Bulls; beneficial or reservatory rules, relating to benefices and reservations; lastly, judicial rules, concerning certain prescriptions to be observed in judicial matters, especially with relation to appeals.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The King never took eye from the curbing -- nobody followed after -- the secret of the old reservatory was yet a secret.
The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866
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