Meanings
nounditionary (plural ditionaries)
plural ditionaries
obsoleteA subject; a tributary.he with his famelie, famylyers, and ditionaries, of desperate mynde fledde to the mountaynes
1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World
adjectiveditionary (comparative more ditionary, superlative most ditionary)
comparative more ditionary · superlative most ditionary
obsoleteUnder rule; subject; tributary.And now our markets their chief purveyance owe
To some remote and ditionary coast
1624, George Chapman, Juvenal's Fifth Satire
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