locutory

[lok-yuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

noun

plural

locutories 

1. locutorium.

Word History and Origins

Origin of locutory¹

1475–85; < Medieval Latin locūtōrium, equivalent to locū-, base of loquī to speak + -tōrium -tory ²

Example Sentences

He made also the tablet for the locutory in the chapel of St. Anne, towards the west.

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A door in the last bay leads to the Choir School; this was formerly the Locutory, where the monks indulged in their daily gossip.

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So came she to the grate that they call, I believe, the locutory, and after their holy watchword spoken on both sides, after the manner used in that place, each took the other by the tip of the finger, for no hand could be shaken through the grate.

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The large infirmary no longer receiveth the sick; in the locutory sitteth no more the guest.

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It was Ellen Terry's youngest, freshest voice over again, but with the naïvest little ghost of a French accent; and she didn't seem so much to project a phrase at you by the locutory muscles as to smile it to you.

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