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preservatory
noun 2adj 1
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PRESERVATORY + NOUN
pleaseth
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than
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noun
1
A preservative.
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; […]
2
A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay.
adj
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preservative
But, all this while, the intentions and endeavours must be no other than preservatory; however it pleaseth God to order the events
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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, a
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But, all this while, the intentions and endeavours must be no other than preservatory; however it pleaseth God to order the events
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