a. (sb.) [f. as prec. + -ARY1. Cf. med.L. tintinnābulārius ‘bell-man’ (Oxford Laudian Statutes).] Of or pertaining to bells or bell-ringing; of the nature of a bell; characterized by bell-ringing.

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1787.  G. Colman, Prose Sev. Occas., Lett. fr. Lexiphanes Gloss., Ding-dong, Tintinabulary chimes, used metaphorically to signify dispatch and vehemence.

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1839.  New Monthly Mag., LVII. 131. That truly tintinnabulary peculiarity of the British nation, the ‘half-hour bell.’

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1886.  T. Frost, Remin. Country Journalist, 101. The boy who responded promptly to the tintinnabulary summons.

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  b.  sb. A bell-ringer.

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1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIV. 494. Sacred, but at the same time thoughtless tintinnabularies.

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