speculatory

From Latin speculātōrius (“of or pertaining to spies or scouts”).

• Hyphenation: spec‧u‧la‧to‧ry

speculatory (comparative more speculatory, superlative most speculatory)

1. (archaic) Intended or adapted for viewing or looking out.

   speculatory mount

   • 1815, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:

     speculatory out-posts to the Akeman-street

2. Exercising speculation or guesswork; speculative.

   speculatory divination

   speculatory narrantive

   • 1633, Thomas Carew, Coelum Britanicum:

     My privileges are an ubiquitary, circumambulatory, speculatory, interrogatory, redargutory and immunity over all the privy lodgings

3. (finance) speculative (involving risk)

   speculatory buying

   speculatory transactions

• “speculatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.