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▪ I. dilatory, a.1 and n.|ˈdɪlətərɪ|
Forms: 6–7 dilatorie, 7– dilatory, (8 erron. dilitary). Also 6–7 delatorie, (6 delaterye, deletary), 7 delatory.
[ad. L. dīlātōri-us, f. dīlātōr-em a delayer, agent-n. from differre, dīlāt- to defer, delay: see dilate v.1 Cf. F. dilatoire (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj.
1. Tending to cause delay; made for the purpose of gaining time or deferring decision or action.
1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. xxi. (1588) 622 It was very Dilatorie for the Justices of Peace, to take those Wages, at the handes of the Shirife. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 9 a, For his delaterye excuse. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 237, I abhorre This dilatory sloth and trickes of Rome. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. viii. ii. §46 Dilatory letters excusing themselves from coming thither. 1671Shadwell Humourists v. Wks. 1720 I. 202, I will..make no hesitation or dilatory scruple. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 178 ⁋4 By long deliberation and dilatory projects they may both be lost. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. iii. 80 The policy of England continued to be expectant and dilatory.
b. Law. dilatory plea, a plea put in for the sake of delay. dilatory exception: see exception n. 4 a. dilatory defence (in Sc. Law): see quot.
[1292Britton ii. xvii. §1 Par excepciouns dilatories.] 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §5 None essoin..or other dilatorie ple for the defendant shall be admitted. 1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 21 They..do seeke for nothing more then to checke the course of iustice by their delatory pleas. 1678Hickes in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 49 At last all the dilatory exceptions being answered, the Jury was impanelled and the witnesses sworn. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 301 Dilatory pleas are such as tend merely to delay or put off the suit, by questioning the propriety of the remedy, rather than by denying the injury. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Dilatory Defence is a plea offered by a defender for eliding the conclusions of the action, without entering on the merits of the cause. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §120 Those [Exceptions] are dilatory that are available only for a time, such as that of an agreement not to sue say for five years.
2. Given to or characterized by delay; slow, tardy.
a. Of persons, their characters, habits, etc.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 379 Wit depends on dilatory time. 1711Addison Spect. No. 89 ⁋1 Women of dilatory Tempers, who are for spinning out the Time of Courtship. 1742Young N. Th. i. 413 Poor dilatory man. 1781Cowper Lett. 25 Aug., The most dilatory of all people. 1838Thirlwall Greece III. xix. 106 They are as prompt, as you are dilatory. 1884Pae Eustace 38 You shall have no longer cause to think me dilatory.
b. Of actions.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love xii. (1700) 64 Being press'd to give an account of such a Dilatory way of proceeding. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 144 ⁋11 But between dilatory payment and bankruptcy there is a great distance. 1843Prescott Mexico vi. v. (1864) 369 Cortez was not content to wait patiently the effects of a dilatory blockade. 1879Froude Caesar xxii. 386 His political advisers were impatient of these dilatory movements.
B. n. Law. A means of procuring delay; a dilatory plea: see A. 1 b.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 22 Shifting off the matter by subtil dilatories and frivolous cavilling about the law. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 226 Delatories and shiftings off wear out many a just cause, and beggar many a poor man. 1681Trial of S. Colledge 16 You ought not to have helps to plead dilatories. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 302 Criminals of that sort..should defend upon plain truth, which they know best, without any dilatories, arts or evasions. 1848Wharton Law Lex. s.v. Dilatory Pleas, No man shall be permitted to plead two dilatories at separate times.
▪ II. † diˈlatory, a.2 Obs. rare.
[A bad formation for dilatatory, f. dilate v.]
Used for dilating, dilative.
1691Mullineux in Phil. Trans. XVII. 822 The Chyrurgion..inserted his Dilatory Instrument. |