invitatory
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of invitatory
1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin invītātōrius, equivalent to invitā ( re ) to invite + -tōrius -tory 1
Example Sentences
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Down one block—two, three; then a sudden pause before a narrow store-front liberally placarded with invitatory signs to the public, and with a red cross blazoning above the doorway.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie
Everybody was at dinner; and the serious Kellner of "Der Wildemann" glanced in mild reproach at Mr. James Clinch, who, disregarding that fact and the invitatory table d'hote, stepped into the street.
From The Twins of Table Mountain by Harte, Bret
We appeal to each of these post-Elizabethans with the invitatory line of one of them: ‘Charm me asleep with thy delicious numbers!’
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas
His growl was as thunder in their ears, whether he spake to them in mirth or in rebuke, his invitatory notes being, indeed, of all, the most repulsive and horrid.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
About midnight a more solemn Office began, this time with the invitatory and psalm Venite.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
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