reciprocatory

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsɪp.ɹə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/, /ɹɪˈsɪp.ɹəˌkeɪt(ə)ɹi/

Adjective

reciprocatory (not comparable)

1. Synonym of reciprocating: acting or applying reciprocally between two parties.
   • 1815, The Naval Chronicle‎^[1], volume 34, page 51:

     […] in the year 1725, the emperor Charles having acknowledged Philip as king of Spain and of the Indies, his catholic majesty guaranteed the Ostend East India Company, among other reciprocatory concessions.

   • 1827, Seth William Stevenson, A Tour of France, Savoy, Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1825‎^[2], volume 2, London: C. and J. Rivington, page 597:

     The reciprocatory principle of equal securities—equal rights, is the one to which the Catholic inhabitants of this [Würtemberg] and other Protestant States in Germany submit, without being taught to call it a violation of the discipline of the church.

   • 1886, Benjamin Perley Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Tecumseh, MI: A.W. Mills, Volume 2, Chapter , p. 477,^[3]

     In the evening the Ancient and Honorable Artillery attended a special reception at the White House, reciprocatory of courtesies extended by the corps to President Arthur, one of its honorary members.

   • 1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 11, in The Enormous Room‎^[4], New York: Boni and Liveright, page 230:

     The conscience-stricken pillar of beautiful muscle—who could have easily killed both his assailants at one blow—not only offered no reciprocatory violence but refused even to defend himself.

   • 1938, Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, London: Persephone, 2008, Chapter , p. 14,^[5]

     he was obviously left a little drunk with the reciprocatory fervour of Miss LaFosse’s kisses

2. Synonym of reciprocating: moving backwards and forwards.
   • 1781, patent dated 25 October, cited in Charles Frederick Partington, A Course of Lectures on the Steam Engine, London: J. Gifford, 1826, p. 24, footnote,^[6]

     For certain new methods of applying the vibrating or reciprocatory motion of steam or fire-engines to produce a continued rotative or circular motion round an axis or centre, and thereby to give motion to the wheels of mills, or other machines.

   • 1884, Samuel Smiles, chapter 7, in Men of Invention and Industry‎^[7], London: John Murray, page 199:

     The change effected in the art of newspaper-printing, by the process of stereotypes, is scarcely inferior to that by which the late Mr. Walter applied steam-power to the printing press and certainly equal to that by which the rotary press superseded the reciprocatory action of the flat machine.

See also

• reciprocal