commemoratory

English

Etymology

First attested in 1695; borrowed from New Latin commemorātōrius, from Latin commemorō. Cognate with French commémoratoire, by surface analysis, commemorate +‎ -ory.

Adjective

commemoratory (comparative more commemoratory, superlative most commemoratory)

  1. Pertaining to commemoration.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (rare) Comemmorative
    • 1695, George Hooper, A Discourse concerning Lent, 271:
      The succeeding paschal sacrifices, though commemoratory of the first, yet varied something from it.
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