Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inducing vomiting; vomitive.
- noun Something that induces vomiting.
- noun An aperture through which matter is discharged.
- noun One of the tunnellike passages of an amphitheater or stadium between the seats and the outside wall or passageway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Procuring vomiting; causing ejection from the stomach; emetic; vomitive.
- noun An emetic.
- noun In architecture, an opening or passage, usually one of a regularly disposed series, in an ancient Roman theater or amphitheater, which gave direct ingress or egress to the people in some part of the auditorium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
- noun An emetic; a vomit.
- noun (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The entrance into a
theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; avomitorium - noun medicine A substance that induces
vomiting ; anemetic - adjective medicine Inducing
vomiting ;emetic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium
Etymologies
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Examples
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Human beings add to the mud bath after drinking sprees that render the world a giant vomitory; horses in a Victorian street emit "a steaming heap of straw-woven horseshit".
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love by Michèle Roberts Stevie Davies 2010
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Yes, I believe that humor is an anti-vomitory medication for political digestion.
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When Termite discovers the words vomica, vomit, vomitive, vomitory, vomitorium, vomiturition, and vomitus in the dictionary, she comments that, Page 1,355 has got to be the best page of the dictionary ever.
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From this vomitory the old glacier poured into the plains of the Po that wonderful accumulation of mud, gravel, boulders, and large erratics, which extend for 15 miles from above Ivrea to below Caluso and which when seen in profile from Turin have the aspect of a chain of hills.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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From F, as from a great vomitory, it then radiated in all directions bearing along with it the moraines with which it was loaded and spreading them out on all sides over the great plain.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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I get tired of thinking so hard and duck out through the vomitory, flashing my borrowed badge.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sarah Deming 2011
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No. There is a volume of smoke, as if the chimney were in flame -- a tumultuous cloud pours aloft, straggling and broken, through the broad slate stones that defend the mouth of the vomitory from every blast.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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a black beast leaped forth from the deep vomitory.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
mercy commented on the word vomitory
also, emetic; vessel for receiving vomit
July 13, 2008