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Osculatory adj.

Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. "The osculatory ceremony."

(Geom.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.

Osculatory circle. (Geom.) See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle.

Osculatory plane (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve.

Osculatory sphere (to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Osculatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... went through the osculatory ceremony which they were in the habit of performing, and Mrs. Pendennis got a great secret comfort from the little quarrel—for Laura's confession seemed to say, "That girl can never be a wife for Pen, for she ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... he would have to pet her into quietude, when there was nothing, next to walking out of the window in his sleep, that he dreaded more than a crying woman; then he would have to kiss all the children, and so greatly did he object to such an osculatory performance, that after the act he looked as though he had made way with a quart of alum. Now, there was the pleasing, but slightly astonishing fact, that nobody was going to want to kiss him, and this pale, sweet-faced woman, ...

— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving

... two was not marked by the effusion vocal, gymnastical, osculatory and catechetical that distinguishes the greetings of their unprofessional sisters in society. There was a brief clinch, two simultaneous labial dabs and they stood on the same footing of the old days. Very much like the short salutations of soldiers or of travellers in foreign wilds ...

— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... says a high, sweet voice, with a little complaining note running through it, and then there is a pause, evidently filled up by an osculatory movement. "How odiously cool and fresh you do look! while I—what a journey it has been! and how out of the way! I really don't believe it was nearly so far the last time. Have the roads lengthened, or have they pushed the house ...

— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton