▪ I. stillatory, n.
(ˈstɪlətərɪ)
Forms: 4–7 stillatorie, 5 -tor, 5–6 styllatory, 6 stellatour, stelletore, stillatori, stillatour, -torye, stilletorie, stillitary, -torye, styllathre, -torie, stylletorie, -ye, styllytory, -tary, 6–7 stillitorie, 6–8 -tory, 7 stellatour, stillotorie, 6– stillatory.
[ad. med.L. stillātōrium, f. L. stillāre to drip, distil: see -ory.]
I. 1. A still. Obs. exc. Hist. and fig.
| c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. 27 His forhead dropped as a stillatorie Were ful of Plantayne and of Paritorie. 1460–70 Bk. Quintessence 11 Putte aȝen þe watir in þe stillatorie of circulacioun til ȝe brynge it to so myche swetnes..as ȝe dide þe brennynge watir. 1491 in Acta Dom. Concil. (1839) 195/2 Ane stillator price xiij s. iiij d. 1508 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 137 For making of ane bos hed to ane stellatour of silvir weyand [etc.]. 1530 in Ancestor (1904) XI. 182 Wynington beryth to his crest a styllytory siluer in a wreeth. 1557 Richmond Wills (Surtees) 91 Item iij barrelles, one stelletore, xc. ȝards of hemppen cloth, xxs. 1566 Drant Jerem. iii. K vij, Mine eye, lyke stillitorie runs, and weepes. 1657 Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 223, 1 Stillotorie. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xx. (Roxb.) 232 Doctor Crato his stillatory for the prepareing and drawing of water or oyle of Cynamon. |
b. fig.
| 1579 Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 329/1 This is another stillitorie of his where through Christ must passe. This is a meruellous alchumiste. 1592 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 443 For from the stillitorie of thy face excelling, Coms breath perfumd that breedeth loue by smelling. 1652 Benlowes Theophila To Ladies A 2, So, Stillatories be of Love; That, what was Vapour, may, by Virtue, Essence prove. 1879 Meredith Egoist I. Prelude 4 The remedy of your frightful affliction is here, through the stillatory of Comedy, and not in Science. |
2. A place where distillery is carried on; a still-room; a still-house, distillery.
| 1602 Plat Delights Ladies Epist. (1611) A 3, The Quince, Pomgranate,..Are heere maintain'd,..For Ladies closets and their stillatories. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Stillatorie, a distilling place. 1624 Wotton Elem. Archit. i. 8 All Offices that require heat, as Kitchins, Stillatories..or the like would be Meridionall. c 1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 7 So many little buildings apart from each other..one for a stillitory. 1796 Stat. Acc. Scot. XVII. 294 Here is a stillatory which pays to the revenue {pstlg}729 per annum. |
3. attrib.
| 1561–2 in Rep. Middleton MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1911) 417 Paied to the smythe for makynge and mendynge a locke for the styllytary howse dore. 1586 Bright Melanch. xxvii. 156 Placed over the rest as a stillitorye helme ouer the bodie. |
† II. 4. = stillicide. Obs.
| 1777 W. Gostling Walk Canterb. (ed. 2) 189 Stillatory is the name our workmen give to spaces between buildings..to receive the rain which runs from the roofs. |
▪ II. † ˈstillatory, a. Obs.
[ad. med.L. *stillātōrius, f. L. stillāre: see stillation and -ory. Cf. F. stillatoire (Cotgr. 1611).]
a. Used in distilling. b. (See quot. 1656.)
| 1579 Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) II. 125 Plate and butre stuffe w{supt}{suph} glasses stillatory. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Stillatory, stilling, distilling, dropping. |