minatory

adjective /ˈmɪn.ə.tɔːɹ.iː/

1. Threatening, menacing.

   […]the Place de Grève, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel;[…]

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius. Compare menace.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry minatory (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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