concionatory

English

Adjective

concionatory (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses.
   • 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:

     unbeguile the vulgar of the odde opinion the Loyolists had formerly infused into them , by their concionatory Invectives, That the Druinians, since they left Petroplis, were transform'd into strange horrid shapes

References

“concionatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.