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Definition of Dilatory
1. Adjective. Wasting time.
Definition of Dilatory
1. a. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
Definition of Dilatory
1. Adjective. Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision. ¹
2. Adjective. Slow or tardy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dilatory
1. tending to delay [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilatory
Literary usage of Dilatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading, in Civil Actions by James Gould (1887)
"OF dilatory PLEAS. DEFENDANT MAY PLEAD TWO OR MORE OF THEM. SECTION 1. dilatory pleas
as usually distinguished, for the purpose of settling the order of ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"It was designed to carry out the policy of the Speaker in refusing t*) entertain
dilatory motions and in counting n quorum by recording ..."
3. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"Pleas are divided into pleas dilatory, and pleas peremptory ; dilatory pleas
being such as ... dilatory pleas again are subject to a subordinate division. ..."
4. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"Where a defence is, at the same time, dilatory and also on the merits, the Lord
Ordinary, when he sustains or repels it, will state that it is disposed of ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"OF dilatory MOTIONS, OB MOTIONS OF ADJOURNMENT. ... There are three kinds of
dilatory motions : — Indefinite adjournment.... (sine die. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Samuel Williston (1895)
"For dilatory pleas are in general not allowable after oyer, (k) nor after a plen
in bar. (I) And besides these, there are other proceedings also, ..."
7. Hand-book of Common-law Pleading by Benjamin Jonson Shipman (1895)
"These exceptions are: (a) Where a dilatory plea is proper. ... dilatory pleas,
as already shown, are those which do not answer the general ..."
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