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Definition of Locutory
1. n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Definition of Locutory
1. Noun. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Locutory
1. a room in a monastery [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locutory
Literary usage of Locutory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Monachism: Or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1843)
"No strange Monk or Canon was to be brought into the regular locutory to converse
... There was a forensic locutory, where Monks and Nuns could converse with ..."
2. A Treatise on the Writ of Scire Facias, with an Appendix of References to Forms by Thomas Campbell Foster (1851)
"By the - statute 8 & 9 Will. III. c. 11, s. 6, it was enacted, " that in all
locutory and actions to be commenced in any Court of Record, if the plaintiff ..."
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