The "damnatory", or "minatory clauses", are the pronouncements contained in the symbol, of the penalties which follow the rejection of what is there proposed for our belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

"Listen," he said, and read her the damnatory document.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

“Excuse me,” said one, in a damnatory officious voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

And bitter enough were the things they said: and damnatory, the two Somers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

The feeling of the Whigs against these anti-slavery men was bitter and damnatory to the last degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

She gave her damnatory evidence neatly, and clearly, and with a seeming candor and regret, that disarmed suspicion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

The whole of the damnatory clause in the exhortation, from the word "unworthily" to "sundry kinds of death," is expunged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

The judgments could not but be damnatory, and their expression in journalistic phrase would disturb his mind with evil rancour.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

I wish you to watch these closely, judging them as a whole, and treating them as I have asked you, and favour me with your damnatory advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

The word is still prophetic rather than damnatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

He was not strongest, however, in damnatory criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

It is just this last that the damnatory clauses proclaim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

The damnatory clauses, as they are called, did not startle me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain] Reference

Now there is nothing more damnatory than a sentence of this kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immortal Memories] Reference

It is the most damnatory biography that ever found its way into print.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907] Reference

In his hand he holds the fateful brief, pregnant with damnatory facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920] Reference

He challenged her with a damnatory gesture in the direction of the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flirt] Reference

The Athanasian Creed is not objectionable because of its damnatory clauses.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Pages from a Journal] Reference

Hermas, the Didache -- were ruthlessly shut out under the same damnatory title.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Rocco Ricci within gave tongue to the vehement damnatory dance of Pericles outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

Trotter's Buildings, which details were to his mind circumstantial, corroborative, and damnatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference

We met Carlyle at Mr. Forster's, and found him in great force, particularly in the damnatory clauses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference

He at once incriminated himself, and was soon induced to bring damnatory accusations against his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Look A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition] Reference

Pompilia's evidence alone is damnatory, for she was not slain outright, and lingers long enough to tell her story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

Frantically Mrs. De Peyster tried to think of some way of holding him back from a possible damnatory encounter with.    From Wordnik.com.  [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference

They could speak from private positive information of certain damnatory circumstances, derived from authentic sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Most of the Commissioners were equally unwilling to give up the doctrinal clauses and to retain the damnatory clauses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference

I don't know what defence, if any, you can put up: but by to-morrow you'll have a damnatory eye that will spoil the most ingenious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foe-Farrell] Reference

He had found that by doing so he could lower a judge in the estimation of the jury, and thus diminish the force of a damnatory charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cousin Henry] Reference

Hans was both annoyed and surprised as time passed on and the "cakes succulent but damnatory" were not forthcoming from Gottlieb's oven.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891] Reference

And then came the damnatory clause in his experience ... that he had never known 'a system 'approaching mine in' excitability '... except.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference