Adjective
Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGod does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them when faith presents them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book. Theodore L. Cuyler
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. Hal Borland
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Hank Stram
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. John Carew Eccles
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver. P. J. O'Rourke
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me. Pat Conroy