Crossword clues for vomitory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vomitory \Vom"i*to*ry\, n.; pl. Vomitories.
An emetic; a vomit.
--Harvey.-
[L. vomitorium.] (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude.
--Gibbon.
Vomitory \Vom"i*to*ry\, a. [L. vomitorious.] Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Inducing vomiting; emetic n. 1 The entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium 2 (context medicine English) A substance that induces vomiting; an emetic
WordNet
n. an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium
Wikipedia
Vomitory can refer to:
- Vomitorium, an architectural feature in Ancient Roman amphitheatres.
- Vomitory (band), a death metal band from Sweden.
Vomitory was a Swedish death metal band formed in 1989 by guitarist Urban Gustafsson and bassist Ronnie Olson. The band released a total of eight albums, and was last signed to Metal Blade Records.
In February 2013, Vomitory announced that it will be disbanding by the end of 2013. The band's final show was on December 27, 2013.
Usage examples of "vomitory".
The route now became confused to the fisherman, for, quitting the more public vomitories of the palace, his companion held his way by a secret door, through many dimly lighted and obscure passages.
Here she made her way to a door that opened on the common and public vomitories of the structure.
Zen made his way through the cavernous vaults and vomitories of the stadium until he finally emerged in the bleak piazzetta outside, its scruffy grass borders and failed shrubs and trees exposed beneath the powerful and pitiless lighting ranged high overhead on steel poles.
I have just come from my Mittagesen, of which I overate to excess, and another serving of sweets might prove vomitory.
Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude.
And when the day’s spectacle is over, and the blood of two thousand victims stains the ring, follow the giddy crowd as it streams from the vomitories into the street, trace its lazy course into the Forum, and hear it there scrambling for the bread of private indolence doled out by the purse of public corruption.