Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to preserve; preservative.
- noun pl. preservatories (-riz). A preservative.
- noun An apparatus for preserving substances for food, or a building where the process of preserving food-products is carried on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Preservative.
- noun obsolete A preservative.
- noun A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
preservative . - noun obsolete A
room orapparatus in whichperishable things can bepreserved withoutdecay .
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Examples
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The male/female groupings were apparent from early on and Tina, who was most spectacularly genuinely herself, at least in comparison to the self-preservatory antics of others, was quickly eliminated, but managed, thankfully, to give Coolio a well deserved dressing down.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jes 2009
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The male/female groupings were apparent from early on and Tina, who was most spectacularly genuinely herself, at least in comparison to the self-preservatory antics of others, was quickly eliminated, but managed, thankfully, to give Coolio a well deserved dressing down.
Current Affairs Comments Jes 2009
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It might also be considered a self-preservatory reflex by the writer.
The Activist Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2006
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It might also be considered a self-preservatory reflex by the writer.
Archive 2006-12-01 Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2006
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A ten-guinea gown may be sacrificed in half an hour, and the indolence of your disposition would lead you to prefer this sacrifice to the trouble of taking any preservatory precautions, or thinking about the matter at all.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady
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As blankly inexperienced of painting and sculpture as any Bushmen, they received this sudden enormous dose of those arts with an instant, self-preservatory incapacity to swallow even a small amount of them.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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"It's a touch of the sun, which I would give you to understand," he continued with a self-preservatory flash, for it was an overcast day in June,
The Rough Road William John Locke 1896
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"A preservatory," said Tom, rather contemptuously, "why, who would think what you meant, if you say a 'air-garden?"
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I'll have towers, and bay-windows, and piazzers, with checkered work all 'round 'em, and a preservatory, and all kinds of new fangled doin's.
Tracy Park Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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Although unfortunately whisky does not age in the bottle, it is still a priceless opportunity to determine the taste and makeup of a delightful beverage laid down over a hundred years ago, stored in a particularly preservatory manner!
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