different between minatory vs interminate

English

Alternative forms

• miniatory (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Latin minatorius, from minari (“to threaten”).

Cognate to menace.

Adjective

minatory (comparative more minatory, superlative most minatory)

1. Threatening, menacing.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [T]he Place de Greve, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel....

   • 1887,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

     Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.

   • 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator.

     [H]er father quietly addressed a few words, by letter, to George Flack. This communication was not of a minatory order; it expressed on the contrary the loose sociability which was the essence of Mr. Dosson's nature.

   • 1997, Edward Gorey, The Haunted Tea-Cosy

     In the cottage next to the post office Alma Crumble broke her wrist stirring batter, at which the Bug declared in a minatory tone that 'That was enough of that.'

   • 1995, P.D. James, The Black Tower

     She shook hands firmly with Adam Dalgleish and gave him a minatory glance as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble

Synonyms

• minacious, ominous, sinister

Translations

References

• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day: The Word of the Day for November 24, 2007 is: minatory

English

Etymology 1

in- +? terminate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t??(?)m?n?t/

Adjective

interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)

1. Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.

   Synonym: interminated

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin interminatus, past participle of interminari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t??(?)m?ne?t/

Verb

interminate (third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated)

1. (obsolete) To menace; to threaten.
   • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion

     doleful accents of interminated judgments

Related terms

• minatory

Italian

Adjective

interminate

1. feminine plural of interminato

Latin

Participle

intermin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of intermin?tus