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ˈspeculatory, n. and a. Now rare.
Also 6–7 -orie.
[ad. L. speculātōri-us: see speculate v. and -ory. In sense 1 of the n. from the L. fem. speculātōria (sc. ars): cf. F. spéculatoire.]
A. n.
†1. The observation or study of occult phenomena. Obs.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 52 b, Out of the same fundation commeth Speculatorie, which doth enterprete thunder, lightning, and other impressions of the Elementes. 1676tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts (1684) 99 Among the Arts therefore of Fortune-telling vulgarly professed in hope of gain, are Physiognomy,..Soothsaying, Speculatory, and Interpretation of Dreams.
†2. A place of observation. Obs.—1
1619J. Bainbridge Descr. Late Comet 14 Appearing to our eye on the superficies of this terrestriall speculatorie.
†3. = speculator 2. Obs.—1
1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray v. 211 By their speculatories or scouts, they had certain intelligence of the King's approach.
B. adj.
†1. Of the nature of, pertaining to, occult speculation. Obs.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 26 No Opticall, or Speculatorie Theories: no Cabalisticall, or Traditionall Suppositions. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 244 Whether mythology or astrology (the poeticall or the speculatory fable) serves most to make one another good or more significant? 1676tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts (1684) 105 Upon the same Grounds the Art of Speculatory Divination is founded.
†2. Inspectorial. Obs.—1
1634T. Carew Cœlum Brit. Wks. (1824) 154 My privileges are an ubiquitary, circumambulatory, speculatory, interrogatory, redargutory immunity over all the privy lodgings.
3. Serving for observation; affording an outlook or view.
1781Warton Hist. Kiddington (1783) 58 Both these [Roman camps] were nothing more than speculatory outposts to the Akeman-street. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery ii. 99 Another small fort..is generally supposed to have been a speculatory station to the grand camp of Buckland. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. ii, Extreme Left; sitting on the topmost benches, as if aloft on its speculatory Height or Mountain. |