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hortative, a. and n.|ˈhɔːtətɪv|
[ad. L. hortātīv-us, f. hortārī to exhort: see -ive.]
A. adj. Characterized by exhortation, serving or tending to exhort.
1623Cockeram, Hortatiue, belonging to exhortation. 1651Howell Venice 63 Hereupon Pope Vrban came..and made this hortative Oration. 1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 364 The narrative..is vastly more interesting than the didactic or hortative. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 445 Many hortative and illustrative digressions.
B. n. A hortatory speech; an address intended to exhort or encourage.
1607–12Bacon Ess., Marriage & Single Life (Arb.) 268 Generalls commonlye in theire hortatives putt Men in minde of theire wives and Children. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 72 Others incited him to it, and among other hortatives they told him [etc.]. 1884Jaunt in Junk 253 So encouraging [were] the hortatives of Kinioch.
Hence ˈhortatively adv., in a hortative manner; by way of exhortation.
1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 44 Are we to understand this phrase hortatively? |
