-ary

(Latin: a suffix; a person who, a place where, a thing which, or pertaining to; connected with; having the character of; apparatus)

The following examples of this suffix represent a very small number of those that exist in other parts of this lexicon.


sectary
sedentary
1. Requiring continuance in a sitting posture.
2. Accustomed or addicted to sitting still; engaged in sedentary pursuits; not in the habit of taking physical exercise.
3. Established in one place; not moving from place to place; opposed to ambulatory.
4. Inhabiting the same region through life; not migratory; also, of mollusca, etc.; confined to one spot, not locomotory.
sedimentary
1. Of, containing, resembling, or derived from sediment.
2. Forming at the bottom of a liquid.
seditionary
seminary
1. A place where animals are bred; a region which supplies (some kind of animal).
2. A place of origin and early development; a place or thing in which something (e.g. an art or science, a virtue or vice) is developed or cultivated, or from which it is propagated abundantly.
3. A place, country, society, condition of things, or the like, in which some particular class of persons are produced or trained.
4. A school or college for training persons for the priesthood. In the 16th-17th century it was often used with reference to those institutions engaged in the training of priests for the English mission.
5. An educational institution for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis.
septenary
Pertaining to or relating to the number seven, or forming a group of seven; as in the number of days in a week.
septuagenary
1. Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old.
2. A septuagenarian.
sericipary
Producing silk.
sexcentenary
silentiary
1. One appointed to keep silence and order in court.
2. Someone who is sworn not to divulge secrets of state.
solitary
1. Done without the company of other people.
2. Preferring to be or live alone.
3. Existing as the only one of its kind.
4. In zoology, used to describe animals that live alone or in pairs rather than in colonies or social groups.
5. In botany, a reference to flowers that grow singly rather than as a cluster.
solitudinary, solitudinous
Characterized by living alone or by solitude.
stationary
statuary
stenobary
Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of water depths. A reference to aquatic organisms.

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