comminatory
1Comminatory — Com*min a*to ry, a. [Cf. F. comminatoire.] Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …
2comminatory — index calumnious, critical (faultfinding), sinister Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3Comminatory — In law, a comminatory is a clause inserted into a law, edict, patent, etc, describing a punishment that is to be imposed on delinquents, which, however, is not in practice executed with the rigor that is conveyed in the description, or not even… …
4comminatory denunciative denunciatory — inculpative inculpative adj. Inculpatory. [Narrower terms: {accusatorial, accusatory, accusing}; {comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory}; {condemnatory, condemning ; {criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory ; {damnatory, damning… …
5comminatory — adjective see commination …
6comminatory — See commination. * * * …
7comminatory — adjective Of or pertaining to commination …
8comminatory — adj. punishing, threatening, vengeful …
9comminatory — [ kɒmɪnəˌt(ə)ri] adjective rare threatening, punitive, or vengeful …
10comminatory — com·mi·na·to·ry …
