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indicatory, a.|ˈɪndɪkətərɪ, ˈɪndɪkeɪtərɪ|
[f. L. indicāt-, ppl. stem of indicāre to indicate + -ory.]
†1. Med. Serving to indicate the nature or tendency of a disease; symptomatic: cf. indicant a. Obs.
1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick iii. xiii. (1639) 119 If the flux..be indicatory, the signes are rehearsed in another place. 1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. i. 19 Who will say that the Physition in his iudgement by vrine, by indicatorie and criticall daies, by Symptomes and other arguments..doeth intrude into the secret prouidence of God? 1624Donne Devot. 347 (T.) The Pharisees pretended, that if they had been in their fathers' days (those indicatory and judicatory, those critical days), they would not have been partakers of the blood of the prophets.
2. Serving to indicate or point out something.
a1734North Lives (1826) II. 198 Sir Samuel Moreland published..a device to prolong the indicatory space from three inches as in common tubes to a foot or more..This he called a statick barometer. 1824Examiner 471/1 The overture is admirably spirited, indicatory, and impressive. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (1877) §198 The la of Saxon times has none of the indicatory or pointing force which lo now has. 1873Sir C. W. Thomson Depths of the Sea vii. 294 The box which covers the coil and indicatory part of the thermometer.
3. Indicative of something.
1798Belsham Hist. Gt. Brit. an. 1781 (R.) Great preparations were made..indicatory of an approaching siege. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 675 The writer alludes to certain physiognomical peculiarities of the writers in the Review, as indicatory of their character. |