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precatory, a.|ˈprɛkətərɪ|
[ad. late L. precātōri-us, f. precātōr-em one who prays, agent-n. from precārī to pray.]
Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or expressing entreaty or supplication.
In Gram.: see precative.
1636Jackson Creed viii. xix. §1 Some..would have this word Hosanna, to be merely precatory or optative: The Lord send help or salvation. 1657Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 83 That precatory Hymn of Veni Creator. 1787Sir J. Hawkins Johnson 270 The most perfect models of precatory eloquence and civil negotiation. 1833Carlyle Diderot Misc. Ess. 1872 V. 17 Epistles precatory and amatory..he may have written. 1842Abp. Thomson Laws Th. §27 (1860) 41 Others are only precatory or exclamatory: as ‘Oh that this too solid flesh would melt!’ 1853Wolfe Heb. Gram. 90 [The Imperative with paragogic {hebhe}] is frequently followed by the precatory particle אנ I pray.
b. precatory words, words in a will praying or expressing a desire that a thing be done. When these are deemed to have an imperative force and to bind the person to whom they are addressed, they constitute a precatory trust.
1782in W. Brown Rep. Crt. Chanc. I. 143 The answer is that the words are precatory, not imperative. 1803Ld. Eldon in F. Vesey Reports (1804) VIII. 380 Whether the terms are those of recommendation, or precatory, or expressing hope..if the objects..are certain..the words are considered imperative; and create a Trust. 1890Will of E. W. Harcourt (Nuneham), [The testator expresses a hope] which is not to be construed as a precatory trust, that my successors in the Harcourt estates will carry out the wishes expressed by our common benefactor, the said George Simon Earl Harcourt,..and will use the surname of Harcourt only. 1904Times 3 Feb. 2/4 The question..was whether the bequest constituted a precatory trust. |