What's the difference between lachrymatory and lacrimatory?
Lachrymatory
Definition:
(n.) A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the lachrymatory action follows a general scheme for the activity of sensory transduction.
(2) Similar compounds without lachrymatory activity were reduced either very slowly or not at all.
(3) The lachrymatory substance in onions is propenyl sulfenic acid.