"minatory" meaning in English

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        "2": "minārī",
        "pos": "verbal derivative of <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">minae</i>, plural only, \"threats, menaces, portents of evil\"",
        "t": "to threaten, speak or act menacingly, hold out the threat of"
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        "2": "ēminēre",
        "t": "to stick out, protrude"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius, from Latin minor, minārī (“to threaten, speak or act menacingly, hold out the threat of”, verbal derivative of minae, plural only, \"threats, menaces, portents of evil\") + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor; minae probably, if originally \"projecting points, overhang,\" noun derivative of the verbal base *men- seen in ēminēre (“to stick out, protrude”), of uncertain origin.\nCognate to menace.",
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    {
      "form": "more minatory",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "most minatory",
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1995, P. D. James, The Black Tower",
          "text": "She shook hands firmly with Adam Dalgleish and gave him a minatory glance as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble",
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        },
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          "ref": "1997, Edward Gorey, The Haunted Tea-Cosy",
          "text": "In the cottage next to the post office Alma Crumble broke her wrist stirring batter, at which the Bug declared in a minatory tone that 'That was enough of that.'",
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        "Threatening, menacing."
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          "Threatening",
          "threaten"
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        {
          "word": "minacious"
        },
        {
          "word": "ominous"
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        {
          "word": "sinister"
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            "obsolete"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zaplašitelen",
          "sense": "threatening, menacing",
          "word": "заплашителен"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "threatening, menacing",
          "word": "fenyegető"
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zakanúvački",
          "sense": "threatening, menacing",
          "word": "закану́вачки"
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          "sense": "threatening, menacing",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius, from Latin minor, minārī (“to threaten, speak or act menacingly, hold out the threat of”, verbal derivative of minae, plural only, \"threats, menaces, portents of evil\") + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor; minae probably, if originally \"projecting points, overhang,\" noun derivative of the verbal base *men- seen in ēminēre (“to stick out, protrude”), of uncertain origin.\nCognate to menace.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more minatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most minatory",
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        "superlative"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Edward Gorey, The Haunted Tea-Cosy",
          "text": "In the cottage next to the post office Alma Crumble broke her wrist stirring batter, at which the Bug declared in a minatory tone that 'That was enough of that.'",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Threatening, menacing."
      ],
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          "threaten"
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          "menacing",
          "menace"
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    {
      "word": "minacious"
    },
    {
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    {
      "word": "sinister"
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        "obsolete"
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      "word": "miniatory"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaplašitelen",
      "sense": "threatening, menacing",
      "word": "заплашителен"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "threatening, menacing",
      "word": "fenyegető"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zakanúvački",
      "sense": "threatening, menacing",
      "word": "закану́вачки"
    },
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      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "threatening, menacing",
      "word": "dreiwent"
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