The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excusatory \Ex*cus"a*to*ry\, a. Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French excusatoire, from Medieval Latin excusatorius, from Latin excusare "excuse, make an excuse for" (see excuse (v.)).
Wiktionary
a. serving to make an excuse
WordNet
adj. offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an apologetic manner" [syn: apologetic] [ant: unapologetic]
Usage examples of "excusatory".
The simple handshake transformed on the screen to a heaving ejaculatory introduction between the leading couple is after all classic, in the vulgar sense, 'Hollywood' usage of a property assuming of course that the rights to the context of the handshake have first been secured, just as the picture's entirely gratuitous rape scene is an excusatory contrivance for the obligatory nudity presumably contemplated in the female star's seven figure contract, 'incident springs out of character, and having occurred it alters that character,' writes the English novelist E M Forster, and 'characters, to be real, ought to run smoothly, but a plot ought to cause surprise.