ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Communicatory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Communicatory is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or suitable for communication.

Meaning

Of, relating to, or suitable for communication.

More Meanings

  1. (Christianity, now historical and rare) Chiefly in communicatory letters (or letters communicatory): of or relating to communion.

Example Sentences

Rufinus, however, obtained communicatory letters of pope Siricius, and with them went to Aquileia.
External communion, on the other hand, consists in the same Creeds, Sacraments, Liturgical forms, rites, and ceremonies, communicatory letters between Churches, and the same discipline and episcopal government.
It is true, in the Primitive Churches there were ſundry prudential acts of Communion paſs’d between them, ſuch as their formed and communicatory Letters, by which the holy Biſhops gave an account to each other of the ſtate and condition of their reſpective Churches, and conſulted each others judgment about them; […]
Thirdly, before there was one ſupreme or vniuerſall Biſhop, there was vnitie and communion betweene all the Biſhops in Chriſtendome, whoſe courſe to preſerue vnitie in che Churches and to auoid Schiſme, was to communicate che confeſſions of their faith one with an other by their communicatorie, pacificall or formed letters.

Synonyms for communicatory

Depending on context, synonyms include communicational, expansive, narrative, expressive, revelatory, verbal.

Antonyms for communicatory

Common opposites include uncommunicative, incommunicative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include communicational, sign, expressive, narrative, verbal, signed.

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