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Definition of Minatory
1. Adjective. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. "The situation became ugly"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Balefulness, Omen
Definition of Minatory
1. a. Threatening; menacing.
Definition of Minatory
1. Adjective. Threatening, menacing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Minatory
1. threatening [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minatory
Literary usage of Minatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spolia Zeylanica by National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"(b) Curious minatory action of a harmless Snake. ... This is probably a minatory
action, and is suggestive of the vibration of the tail of the rattle snake ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"... oath would in e Heel declare minatory all proceedings in such courts against
offenders out of whom no judgment could be collected in a civil proceeding. ..."
3. Current Discussions in Theology by Chicago Theological Seminary (1884)
"Not minatory. A fourth characteristic of the preaching of the present day is,
that it is not minatory. It seeks to attain its ends rather by the "sweet ..."
4. Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet by Henry Lansdell (1894)
"A minatory letter, 314.—Escorted into Aksu, 316. ON arriving at the Custom-house
of Muzart- Kurgan, my party was not all together, and when the leading ..."
5. The Book of the Covenant in Moab: A Critical Inquiry Into the Original Form by John Cullen (1903)
"The Third or minatory Edition. I. ADDITIONS. (1) Ix, 7 — x, 1 1, and xI, ...
to what appears to have been its object, may be called the minatory edition. ..."
6. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"WATTS. This is Ps. 95, SM, " A Psalm before Sermon," and has six stanzas. The last
two are rather minatory and are usually omitted. ..."
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