a. and sb. Obs. [ad. (jurid.) L. tribūtōrius of or concerning payment, f. tribūtor, agent-n. from tribu-ĕre to bestow, give, pay: cf. contributory. Superseded by the nominal derivative TRIBUTARY.]

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  A.  adj. Paying tribute; = TRIBUTARY a. 1.

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c. 1460.  Fortescue, Abs. & Lim. Mon., iii. (1885), 115. The peple … sought helpe of the Romayns, to whom thai hade be tributori.

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1530.  Palsgr., 283/1. Trybutorie, tributayre.

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1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., III. xiii. 95. [They] are not tributorie in any gabels or money taxes.

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1596.  [see TRIBUTOR 1].

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1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 219. My father … that rich country tributory made.

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  B.  sb. = TRIBUTARY sb. 1.

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1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., II. vii. 37. They became tributories vntoo the prince of the Turkes. [But cf. I. ix. 12. A newe Kyng, vnto whom they … rendred them selues as his tributaries.]

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