Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. "The osculatory ceremony."
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(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.
... kind which deal with the subject of romantic love are, almost without exception, fatuous and futile. The inanely amatory, with their languishing eyes, weary us. The endlessly osculatory, with their protracted salutations, are sickening. Even when an air of sentimental propriety is thrown about them by some such title as "Wedded" or "The Honeymoon," they fatigue us. For the most part, they remind me of the remark which the Commodore made upon a certain painting of Jupiter and lo ... — Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke
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