exhibitory

English

Etymology

Latin exhibitorius relating to giving up: compare French exhibitoire exhibiting.

Adjective

exhibitory (not comparable)

1. exhibiting; publicly showing
   • 1780, Thomas Warton, The Life of Sir Thomas Pope:

     In an exhibitory bill, or schedule, of expences for their removal this year, as it seems, mention is made of carrying the clock from the college-hall to Garsington-house

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exhibitory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)