a. Obs. [f. L. addit- ppl. stem of add-ĕre to ADD + -ORY, as if ad. L. *additōrius.] Tending to add something. (Also used subst.)
1659. Fuller, Appeal of Inj. Innoc. (1840), 652. This is not contradictory, but additory, to what I have written; an additory only of suggestions and suspicions.
1727. Swift, Polit. Lying, Wks. 1755, III. I. 117. The additory [lie] gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him.
