dilator (2), dilatour

[Lat. dilator.] One who or that which causes delay. "The answer he received from the town was a dilator , till the state, which within a few days was to meet, did consider of his demands."- Baillie : Lett . , i. 165. *di-lat-õr (3), *di-lat-ar, s . [DELATOR.] An informer. "The ane halff to our souerane lord is vse, and the vther halff to the apprehendar and dilatar ."- Acts Jas. VI., 1587 (ed. 1814), p. 427. †dil-a-tōr-i-ly, adv . [Eng. dilatory ; -ly.] Ina dilatory, procrastinating manner; lazily. "Sometime in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily." Johnson: Prayers and Medit . , p. 190. †dil-a-tor-i-ne , s. [Eng. dilatory ; -ne .] The quality of being dilatory; lazine , slowne , tardi ne , procrastination. "The dilatorine and bad management of the War Office."-London Daily Telegraph.