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vomitory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun vomitory has 1 sense
- vomitory(n = noun.artifact) - an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium; is a part of amphitheater, amphitheatre, coliseum
is a kind of entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway
CIDE DICTIONARY
vomitory, a. [L. vomitorious.].
Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive. [1913 Webster]
vomitory, n.
- An emetic; a vomit. Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater. [1913 Webster]"Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
vomitory, adj. & n.
--adj. emetic.
--n. (pl. -ies) Rom. Antiq. each of a series of passages for entrance and exit in an amphitheatre or theatre.
--adj. emetic.
--n. (pl. -ies) Rom. Antiq. each of a series of passages for entrance and exit in an amphitheatre or theatre.
Etymology
L vomitorius (adj.), -um (n.) (as VOMIT)
THESAURUS
vomitory
avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, door, egress, ejaculative, ejective, emetic, emunctory, eructative, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expulsive, extrusive, flatulent, floodgate, flume, loophole, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, sally port, sluice, spiracle, spout, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitive, way out, weirROGET THESAURUS
vomitory
Opening
N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.
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