promIssory

[Lat. promi or a promiser; Eng. adj. suff. -y.] Containing or of the nature of a promise or covenant to do or forbear to do something. "As the preceptive part enjoins the most exact virtue, so is it most advantageously enforced by the promi ory ." - Decay of Christian Piety. promi ory-note, s . Comm.: A written promise to pay a given sum of money to a certain person, at a specified date. The phrase "for value received" is usually inserted. promi ory-oath, 8. [OATH.] *prō-mit', v . t. [Lat. prom it to .] [PROMISE, v.] To disclose, to publish, to confe . *prom'-ont, subst . [An abbrev. of promontory (q. v.).] A promontory. "The shore let her transcend the promont to descry." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. i. *prom-on-tör-I-ous, a . [English promontory ; -ous.] Overhanging, like a promontory; hence, high and predominant. "The Papists brag of their tude."- Adams : Works, 1. 422. prom on to rio us cels i