Verb (used with object) : to reciprocate favors. From Dictionary.com.
Mañgguáñgan, sent me a few days later a present of a chicken and about two glassfuls of sugarcane brew, and would not accept a reciprocatory gift of beads and jingle bells that I sent him. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
The motion is similar, not being continuously revolving, but reciprocatory, and the method is customary in all the rice-eating regions except India, and is well known in parts of the latter, though not universal. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
And, "how we can convert reciprocatory motion into rotatory motion?" is one of my favorite selections of the evening/morning/afternoon. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Customs Tariff to give free trade within the Empire, and complete protection so far as the rest of the world was concerned, with strictly reciprocatory concessions to such nations as might choose to offer these to us, and to no others. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
The change effected in the art of newspaper-printing, by the process of stereotypes, is scarcely inferior to that by which the late Mr. Walter applied steam-power to the printing press, and certainly equal to that by which the rotary press superseded the reciprocatory action of the flat machine. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
The reciprocatory payment and banquet. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
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