Meanings of comminatory in English

So the instruments were tuned and the comminatory verses sung.

But presently Arran began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished.

I detected something comminatory in his yellow, emaciated countenance, but I believe now he was simply startled by my youth.

Captain Tom went sailing from island to island, appearing unexpectedly in various localities, beaming, noisy, anecdotal, commendatory or comminatory, but always welcome.

"She has gone after him," stated Fyne in comminatory tones.