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/ɹɪˈsɪp.ɹə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/ · adjective
Synonym of reciprocating: acting or applying reciprocally between two parties..
1886, Benjamin Perley Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Tecumseh, MI: A.W. Mills, Volume 2, Chapter , p. 477, In the evening the Ancient and Honorable Artillery attended a special reception at the White House, reciprocatory of courtesies extended by the corps to President Arthur, one of its honorary members.
1938, Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, London: Persephone, 2008, Chapter , p. 14, he was obviously left a little drunk with the reciprocatory fervour of Miss LaFosse’s kisses
[…] in the year 1725, the emperor Charles having acknowledged Philip as king of Spain and of the Indies, his catholic majesty guaranteed the Ostend East India Company, among other reciprocatory concessions.
The reciprocatory principle of equal securities—equal rights, is the one to which the Catholic inhabitants of this [Würtemberg] and other Protestant States in Germany submit, without being taught to call it a violation of the discipline of the church.
The conscience-stricken pillar of beautiful muscle—who could have easily killed both his assailants at one blow—not only offered no reciprocatory violence but refused even to defend himself.
1781, patent dated 25 October, cited in Charles Frederick Partington, A Course of Lectures on the Steam Engine, London: J. Gifford, 1826, p. 24, footnote, For certain new methods of applying the vibrating or reciprocatory motion of steam or fire-engines to produce a continued rotative or circular motion round an axis or centre, and thereby to give motion to the wheels of mills, or other machines.
The change effected in the art of newspaper-printing, by the process of stereotypes, is scarcely inferior to that by which the late Mr. Walter applied steam-power to the printing press and certainly equal to that by which the rotary press superseded the reciprocatory action of the flat machine.
Use reciprocatory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Reciprocatory means Synonym of reciprocating: acting or applying reciprocally between two parties..
Common synonyms include reciprocating, reciprocal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1886, Benjamin Perley Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Tecumseh, MI: A.W. Mills, Volume 2, Chapter , p. 477, In the evening the Ancient and Honorable Artillery attended a special reception at the White House, reciprocatory of courtesies extended by the corps to President Arthur, one of its honorary members.
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