imˈprovatory, a. nonce-wd.
[irreg. f. improve v.2, after confirmatory, etc.]
Of improving nature or tendency.
| 1835 New Monthly Mag. XLV. 298 Three or four hundred letters..hortatory, dehortatory, expostulatory, improvatory, and exclamatory! |
imˈprovatory, a. nonce-wd.
[irreg. f. improve v.2, after confirmatory, etc.]
Of improving nature or tendency.
| 1835 New Monthly Mag. XLV. 298 Three or four hundred letters..hortatory, dehortatory, expostulatory, improvatory, and exclamatory! |
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