reciprocatory

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The conscience-stricken pillar of beautiful muscle—who could have easily killed both his assailants at one blow—not only offered no reciprocatory violence but refused even to defend himself.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)

The motion is similar, not being continuously revolving, but reciprocatory, and the method is customary in all the rice-eating regions except India, and is well known in parts of the latter, though not universal.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various

"It would be no good if ye did," responded Mr. Wendover, with a reciprocatory grin which displayed two yellow fangs like the teeth of a walrus.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

In the evening the Ancient and Honorable Artillery attended a special reception at the White House, reciprocatory of courtesies extended by the corps to President Arthur, one of its honorary members.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

The rotating box is given a slight vertical and horizontal reciprocatory motion, by which the combs are made to grate on the wire gauze sides, breaking the cells and liberating the honey.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various