depulsory
English
Etymology
Latin depulsorius.
Adjective
depulsory (comparative more depulsory, superlative most depulsory)
- Driving or thrusting away; averting.
- 1609, Philemon Holland, The Roman historie […] , translation of original by Ammianus Marcellinus:
- Making supplication […] unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices.
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References
- depulsory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913