19 August 2015
minatory or minatorial
[min-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
adjective
1. menacing; threatening.
Origin of minatory
Late Latin
1525-1535; < Late Latin minātōrius, equivalent to Latin minā (rī) to menace + -tōrious -tory1
Related forms
minatorily, adverb
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Examples from the Web for minatory
Historical Examples
I had lugged my double-barrel thus far, a futile burden, unless when it served a minatory purpose among the drunken Klalams.
Mount Rainier
Various
Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
A Study In Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
And now we know for all time that these countless scolding and minatory voices were not mere angry units, but that they were in.
The German War
Arthur Conan Doyle
Anagram
main troy
my ration
into army
any Timor
Today’s quote
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
– Blaise Pascal
On this day
19 August 14AD – death of Augustus Caesar, founder of the Roman Empire and first Roman Emperor.
19 August 1662 – death of Blaise Pascal, controversial French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer. Formulated ‘Pascal’s Triangle’, a tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, challenged Aristotle’s followers who claimed that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. The computer programming language, ‘Pascal’, is named in his honour.
19 August 1900 – start of the first Olympic cricket match, played in Paris. It is the only Olympics in which cricket was played.
19 August 1919 – Afghanistan Independence Day, in which Afghanistan declared its independence from Britain.
19 August – World Humanitarian Day – a day to recognise those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. 19 August was chosen because it is the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, which killed Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative for Secretary-General to Iraq and 21 of his colleagues. The day seeks to draw attention to humanitarian needs worldwide and the importance of international cooperation in meeting these needs.