The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consolatory \Con*sol"a*to*ry\, a. [L. consolatorius.] Of a consoling or comforting nature.
The punishment of tyrants is a noble and awful act of
justice; and it has with truth been said to be
consolatory to the human mind.
--Burke.
Consolatory \Con*sol"a*to*ry\, n.
That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for
consolation. [R.]
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin consolatorius, from consolator, agent noun from consolari (see console (v.)).
Wiktionary
a. Which consoles. n. That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
WordNet
adj. affording comfort or solace [syn: comforting, consoling]
Usage examples of "consolatory".
The truest religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN MELANCHOLY CONDITION--OCCURRENCE AT THE TI--ANECDOTE OF MARHEYO--SHAVING THE HEAD OF A WARRIOR IN looking back to this period, and calling to remembrance the numberless proofs of kindness and respect which I received from the natives of the valley, I can scarcely understand how it was that, in the midst of so many consolatory circumstances, my mind should still have been consumed by the most dismal forebodings, and have remained a prey to the profoundest melancholy.
And the image of Marianne arose before him like a consolatory promise of life's coming victory, an atonement for every shame and iniquity.
I am sure that there exists no human being, no human age, to whom or to which that gracious, consolatory power of dreaming is totally a stranger.
Dimitri came to see me every day, and was very kind and consolatory throughout.
She might have said something consolatory, even marginally friendly, but he shifted his head, spotted her.
He had done something perhaps to save her from a cold: such was his only consolatory thought.
He had a pleasant sense that she would be very approachable for consolatory purposes.
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Once they had reached it and found that it was not equipped with pink unicorns, cotton candy vendors, teen idol bands, or fluorescent green water slides, they lost interest and began to gravitate toward the house-which in and of itself was far from Disneyland, but in which a practiced and assertive user like Elizabeth could find a few consolatory nuggets, such as a full-time kitchen staff, trained in (among many other, completely useless skills) the preparation of hot chocolate.