informatoryadj.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 451 (MED) The pope sende to Honorius archebischoppe of Cawnterbery..letters informatory how he scholde ordeyne [L. informatoriis de modo ordinandi] metropolitanes in Briteyne.

1648 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum 192 The main substance of the Epistle..is either, Informatory and Doctrinall, or Hortatory, and Practicall.

1674 W. Annand Dualitas 7 Cesar's not reading the Letter, that discovered his own intended murther.., may compel a Magistrate in tumults, into a sagacious inspection of any informatory Epistle.

1743 W. MacBean Constit. Germany ii. ii. 61 The inferior Judge may always, in a Case of Appeal, send informatory Letters to the Imperial Court.

1794 J. Stewart Second Peal Tocsin Brit. 30 He has confounded the inflammatory with the informatory writings of the press.

1860 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 30 315 We leave the traveller at leisure to turn his attention to the latter, more popular, interesting, and informatory particulars.

1881 D. Masson De Quincey xi. 138 Any kind of useful, or, as they are beginning to call it, ‘informatory’, printed matter.

1883 Fortn. Rev. Sept. 391 The volume is gossipy but instructive, always informatory.

1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 202 They are often of great informatory value.

1926 Amer. Mercury July 269/1 Morgan's statement, even if exaggerated, is still informatory about a land supposedly so unknown.

1974 German Q. 47 506 The informatory leaflet also contains a list of all universities and institutes of higher education.

2006 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 20 Mar. 15 Consideration will be given to the provision of informatory signs to advise drivers of the unsuitability of a route for use by lorries.

1896 M. C. Work Whist of To-day (ed. 4) 177 Informatory gain, a style of game that gives information.]

1913 M. C. Work Auction of To-day vii. 143 All doubles, except the double of one Spade by the Second Hand, which is really an informatory bid, are made for the purpose of increasing the score of the doubler. The old idea of informatory doubles has been abandoned.

1915 Atlanta Constit. 29 Aug. D bids two clubs, which he could never have done without B's informatory double, and makes game.

1926 A. E. M. Foster & G. F. Hervey Auction Bridge Informatory Doubles 82 This Informatory Pass would be made against (say) a Spade bid on such a hand as [etc.].

1962 Times 29 Aug. 11/1 He cannot afford to double because his bid will be treated by North as informatory.

2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 18 May b8 Nevertheless, there remains a place for an informatory double. It is whimsically referred to as an impulsive double that informs declarer what to expect in the trump suit and how to play the hand.