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Lachrymator vs Lachrymatory - What's the difference?

lachrymator | lachrymatory |

As nouns the difference between lachrymator and lachrymatory

is that lachrymator is any substance that causes tears; especially tear gas while lachrymatory is a vase intended to hold tears, formerly used by archaeologists to designate certain urns found in Roman burials.

As an adjective lachrymatory is

pertaining to or causing tears.

lachrymator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any substance that causes tears; especially tear gas

    • lachrymatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or causing tears.
  • * 1919': It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of ' lachrymatory gas. — Winston Churchill,

    • Noun

    (lachrymatories)
  • A vase intended to hold tears, formerly used by archaeologists to designate certain urns found in Roman burials.
  • * 1658': For beside these '''Lachrymatories , notable Lamps with Vessels of Oyles and Aromaticall Liquors attended noble Ossuaries. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)