The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osculatory \Os"cu*la*to*ry\, n. [LL. osculatorium. See Osculate.] (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pax, 2.
Osculatory \Os"cu*la*to*ry\, a.
Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. ``The osculatory ceremony.''
--Thackeray.-
(Geom.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.
Osculatory circle. (Geom.) See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle.
Osculatory plane (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve.
Osculatory sphere (to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to kissing. 2 (context geometry English) Relating to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation. n. (context Christianity English) A religious tablet, usually carrying a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which is kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace"); it is then passed to others at the mass who also kiss it.
Usage examples of "osculatory".
The meeting of the two was not marked by the effusion vocal, gymnastical, osculatory and catechetical that distinguishes the greetings of their unprofessional sisters in society.
Turan, seeing a thousand or more years of osculatory memoirs portending, interrupted.
Meta murmured the words in a highly osculatory fashion, while spinning him about and kissing him so passionately that his sperm count jumped one hundred percent.
James with his literal mind provided this game with an aggressor, a defender, and the final extraction by coercion or violence of the first osculatory contact.
The skirl of the pipes and the sight of the kilts moved the population to great enthusiasm, both vocal and osculatory, and we had a regular triumphal procession.
He made conciliatory noises--a species of clucking sound with his broad, flat lips--that were, too, not greatly dissimilar to that which might be produced in an osculatory solo.
A burly German made a rush for the car the moment she appeared upon the platform and lifted her off with vehement osculatory welcome, Davies standing silently and patiently by the while, then surrendering her traps to her legal protector.
But up to that time we had kept the osculatory incident a profound secret.
The osculatory technique of English girls varies slightly from that of their American sisters.
The teeth and tongues of British girls move more freely and both take and provide more joy during osculatory activity - this, indubitably, the result of the simpler English diet which has not jaded the taste buds to oral sensations as the more spicily varied American foods have.