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Meanings of reciprocatory in English

Moving alternately backward and forward.

Reciprocating.

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Examples for "reciprocating"
1
Parzival: I refuse to answer any more questions until you start reciprocating.
Ready Player One
2
The new reciprocating device, and the self-feeding storage batteries are fully covered.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
3
Heartily reciprocating his good wishes, Randal attended Captain Bennydeck to the door.
The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
4
During this speech Cowperwood's brain had been reciprocating like a well-oiled machine.
The Titan
5
There's virtually no record of Madiba reciprocating the kind words of his counterpart.
The South African
Usage of reciprocatory in English
1
The reciprocatory payment being successfully carried through, it now remains for the bridegroom's relatives to give the farewell feast and carry off the bride.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
2
He therefore doubles up this marvelous fact of a mother's love, and creates in his imagination a reciprocatory agency co-respondent to this mother's love.
The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
Reciprocatory through the time