Meaning of preservatory | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A preservative.
   obsolete
2. A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay.
   obsolete

Examples

“How many Masters have⟳ some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look⟳ on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name⟳, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know⟳ it by the Name⟳, but not as thine; […]”

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