Word Meanings - EXHORTATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.

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• EXHORTATION
  1. The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable. 2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HORTATORY
  Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.
• EXHORTATORY
  Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.
• DEHORTATORY
  Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.
• ADHORTATORY
  Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. Potter.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach