| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. With delay; tardily.[Websters]
2. In a late, overdue or time-consuming manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a languid or backward manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a remiss manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a slow, sluggish, bovine, cumbersome or slow-moving manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a slack, lax, supine or lackadaisical manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a neglectful or delinquent manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an inactive, indolent, stagnant or torpid manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a weak, languorous or spiritless manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective dilatory.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (dilatory) | 1. Wasting time.[Wordnet]. 2. Inclined to waste time and lag behind.[Wordnet]. 3. Using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy".[Wordnet]. 4. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.[Websters]. 5. Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.[Websters]. 6. Being tardy, slow, late, overdue or unready.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being sluggish, slack, languid, listless or supine.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being belated, backward or behindhand.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being lazy, slothful or indolent.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Seldom used base adjective of the adverb dilatorily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DILATORILY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DILATORILY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] With delay; tardily.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adverb] In a dilatory manner. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: dilatory
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dilatory plea | 1: (Law), a plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case. Syn: Slow; delaying; sluggish; inactive; loitering; behindhand; backward; procrastinating. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A plea that delays the action without settling the cause of action; it can challenge the jurisdiction or claim disability of the defendant etc. (such defenses are usually raised in the defendant's answer). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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Specialty Expressions: dilatory
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dilatory defence | Law | DILATORY DEFENCE. chancery practice. 1. A dilatory defense is one, the object of which is to dismiss, suspend, or obstruct the suit, without touching the merits, until the impediment or obstacle insisted on shall be removed. 2. These defenses are of four kinds: 1. To the jurisdiction of the court. 2. To the person of the plaintiff or defendant. 3. To the form of proceedings, as that the suit is irregularly brought, or it is defective in its appropriate allegation of the parties; and, 4. To the propriety of maintaining the suit itself, because of the pendancy of another suit for the same controversy. Montag. Eq. Pl. 88; Story Eq. Pl. §434. Vide Defense: Plea, dilatory. (references) | |
| Dilatory pleas | Law | DILATORY PLEAS. Those which delay the plaintiff's remedy, by questioning, not the cause of action, but the propriety of the suit, or the mode in which the remedy is sought. Vide Plea, dilatory. (references) | |
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