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▪ I. † ˈoperatory, n.1 Obs.
[ad. med.L. operātōrium, neut. n. from operātōrius adj.; see prec.]
A workshop, laboratory.
1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xlvii. (1839) 699 In what shop, or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. 1663Cowley Ess., College (1669) 44 The House and Gardens, and Operatories, and Instruments. 1666Marquis of Worcester in Dircks Life xvii. (1865) 286 A house called Fauxhall, for an operatory for engineers.
▪ II. † ˈoperatory, a. (n.2)
[ad. late L. (a 400) operātōrius creating, forming, f. ppl. stem of operārī to operate: see -ory.]
Producing, or capable of producing, an effect; effectual; concerned with action, practical: = operative A. 1–3.
a1556Cranmer Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 36 When this true believing man..receiveth the bread..and drinketh the wine..to him the words of our Saviour Christ be effectuous and operatory. 1638Featley Transubst. 179 That [these words] are not at all operatorie. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 421 The Operatory Part consists in the Invention of the Divisor.
B. n.2 An efficient agent: = operative B. 2.
1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. i. §2. 41 The whole progression of mysteries in his body, was still an operatory of life and spiritual being to us. |