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clamatory

adj

Etymology

Probably from the stem of Latin clamatus + -ory; equivalent to claim + -atory. Compare exclamatory, declamatory, reclamatory.

  1. derived from *kelh₁-✻
  2. derived from *klāmāō✻
  3. derived from clamo
  4. derived from clamer
  5. inherited from claimen
  6. formed as clamatory — “claim + -atory”

Definitions

  1. Crying out, calling out

    Crying out, calling out; claiming, demanding.

    • Some persons say that it [the "clivia"] was a clamatory, others, again, that it was a prohibitory, bird. We also find a bird mentioned by Nigidius as the “subis," which breaks the eggs of the eagle.
    • "Poor children!" which is an elliptical vocative form: "Oh, the poor children!"—a clamatory or deploratory form of some such utterance as “The bowels of my compassion are moved by (or, when I think of) the poor children."

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