osculate
verb (used without object)
to come into close contact or union.
osculatory
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a word derived from
osculate.
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a word derived from
osculation.
osculationnounthe act of kissing.
Example Sentences
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I am afraid music is a foreign language to Professor Gore also, with his talk of "osculatory orchestration" and similar tripe.
From Time Magazine Archive
I should have deemed Miss Jemima’s osculatory art as the mere effect of high spirits and hoyden playfulness, had it not been for the hypocrisy that she was displaying towards my messmate.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
What arithmetic shall undertake to compute the osculatory expenditure?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
The endlessly osculatory, with their protracted salutations, are sickening.
From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Henry Van Dyke
Laugh at this anecdote, but did not a New York hack-driver make a small fortune by letting out for osculatory purposes the hand that helped Jenny Lind from her carriage?
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
