| BESTIARY | • bestiary n. A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals. • bestiary n. (Gaming) A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game. • BESTIARY n. a book of animal fables. |
| EVIDENTIARY | • evidentiary adj. (Law) Of or pertaining to evidence. • EVIDENTIARY adj. being, relating to, or affording evidence. |
| OBEDIENTIARY | • obedientiary n. The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior. • OBEDIENTIARY n. someone subject to obedience. |
| OSTIARY | • ostiary n. The mouth of a river; an estuary. • ostiary n. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter. • OSTIARY n. a doorkeeper at a church. |
| PENITENTIARY | • penitentiary n. (Chiefly US) A state or federal prison for convicted felons; (broadly) a prison. • penitentiary n. A priest in the Roman Catholic Church who administers the sacrament of penance. • penitentiary n. (Obsolete) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance. |
| PLENIPOTENTIARY | • plenipotentiary n. A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally)… • plenipotentiary adj. Invested with full power. • plenipotentiary adj. Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent. |
| POTENTIARY | • potentiary n. (Archaic) A person invested with power or influence. • POTENTIARY n. a person invested with power and influence. |
| RESIDENTIARY | • residentiary adj. Of, pertaining to, or having residence, especially official residence. • residentiary n. A canon who has an official residence. • RESIDENTIARY n. an inhabitant; a person bound to reside, such as a canon. |
| RETIARY | • retiary adj. Net-like. • retiary adj. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; said of certain spiders. • retiary adj. Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangling. |
| REVESTIARY | • revestiary n. (Obsolete) The apartment in a church or temple where the vestments etc. are kept. • REVESTIARY n. a vestry, also REVESTRY. |
| SILENTIARY | • silentiary n. A person who keeps silent, especially from religious motives. • silentiary n. (Historical) An official at any of several courts who maintained silence. • SILENTIARY n. a person maintaining or bound to silence. |
| TERTIARY | • tertiary adj. Of third rank or order; subsequent. • tertiary adj. (Chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution… • tertiary adj. (Ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird’s wing; tertial. |
| VESTIARY | • vestiary n. A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house. • vestiary n. (Rare, uncountable) Clothing; garments. • vestiary adj. Pertaining to clothes or clothing. |