a. and sb. [ad. L. exhibitōri-us, f. exhibēre: see EXHIBIT and -ORY.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  a. Intended to exhibit, set forth, or display. b. Of or pertaining to display or exhibition.

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1772.  Warton, Life Sir T. Pope (1780), 379, note. An exhibitory bill … of expences for their removal this year.

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1849.  Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, i. § 8. 18. The treatment of the Papists’ temple is eminently exhibitory; it is surface work throughout.

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1879.  H. N. Hudson, Hamlet, Pref. 15. Knowledge … less available for … exhibitory purposes.

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1882.  Mary Hallock Foote, in Century Mag., XXV. 101/2. The gay, storm-beleaguered camp, in the words of its exhibitory press, began to ‘boom.’

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  2.  Intended to cause the exhibition or production of an article in dispute.

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1886.  Muirhead, in Encycl. Brit., XX. 709/1. If the respondent obeyed the order in a restitutory or exhibitory decree, there was an end of the matter.

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  † B.  sb. A procedure with regard to the ‘exhibition’ of remedies. Obs.

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1607.  Walkington, Opt. Glass, 14. Physicions … (whose exhibitories to themselues do not parallel their prescripts … to others).

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