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reciprocatory

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re⋅cip⋅ro⋅cate

  [ri-sip-ruh-keyt] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
Use reciprocatory in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to give, feel, etc., in return.
2. to give and receive reciprocally; interchange: to reciprocate favors.
3. to cause to move alternately backward and forward.
–verb (used without object)
4. to make a return, as for something given.
5. to make interchange.
6. to be correspondent.
7. to move alternately backward and forward.
Origin:
1605–15; < L reciprocātus ptp. of reciprocāre to move back and forth. See reciprocal, -ate 1

Related forms:
re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅tive, re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅to⋅ry  [ri-sip-ruh-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective
re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. return, respond, retaliate.
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reciprocatory

adjective
1. given or done or owed to each other [syn: reciprocative] 
2. moving alternately backward and forward [syn: reciprocative] 
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