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▪ I. fumatory, n.|ˈfjuːmətərɪ| Also incorrectly fumitory. [f. Lat. type *fūmātōrium, f. fūmāre: see next and -ory.] †1. A censer. Obs. rare—1.
c1530in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 318 The mending of a Fumitory waying more then it dyd before by d. oz. 2. A place set apart for smoking or fumigating purposes.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1730) II. 179 To sot away your time in Mongo's fumitory among a parcel of old smoak⁓dry'd cadators. 1842Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 361 The great united talent of the age..had alighted..on this great ‘fumatory’ [Manchester]. 1851S. Judd Margaret ii. v. (1871) 238 We have erected a Fumitory for the more complete cleansing of all that pass this way. ▪ II. fumatory, a.|ˈfjuːmətərɪ| [f. L. type *fūmātōri-us, f. fūmāre to smoke, f. fūmus: see fume n. and -ory.] Of or pertaining to (tobacco-) smoking.
1847Blackw. Mag. LXI. 744 This fumatory process proceeded for some time almost in silence. |