a. [ad. L. type *combīnātori-us, f. combīnātor: see above and -ORY.] Of or pertaining to a combinator or combination; combinative.
1647. Maids’ Petition, 4. Not by way of combinatory siding but down-right honestly intending the increase of the City force.
1669. Phil. Trans., IV. 1093. His Combinatory Art … shows how often and how many ways they may be combined together.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Combinatory music, that part of music which teaches the manner of combining sounds variously.
1834. Whewell, in Todhunter, Acc. W’s Writ. (1876), II. 186. Combinatory modes of conception.
