单词 | adhortatory |
释义 | adhortatoryadj. archaic and rare in later use. That exhorts or strongly encourages someone to do something, esp. something morally good; exhortatory, encouraging. Also (Grammar): = adhortative adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating > exhortatory adhortatory1534 exhortatory1544 exhortative1564 admonishinga1569 hortatory1586 hortative1623 stem-winding1867 evangelical1952 evangelistic1961 1534 G. Joye in tr. Dauids Psalter f. 114v (heading) The songe of Asaph adhortatorye and thankful, to be plaid at the orgains. 1635 A. Stafford tr. D. Tossanus Synopsis or Compend. of Fathers ii. iii. 29 The adhortatory booke against the Gentiles. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. 119 This, Wear not a Ring, is likewise adhortatory. 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xxvi. 153 Some adhortatory Lessons..are to be privately inculcated. 1759 S. Barrett in tr. Ovid Epist. 349 There is a quaintness..in Phebus's noble adhortatory speech to his son Phaëton, sufficient to cause distaste to me. 1799 Gentleman's Mag. July 550/2 An exclamation of an adhortatory nature. 1861 A. H. Bryce First Greek Reader ii. 149 This is the usual meaning of the first plural subjunctive when used imperatively, or rather in a suggestively adhortatory manner. 1900 Living Age 19 May 422/2 Parson said some adhortatory words. 1992 Proc. Harvard Celtic Colloquium 12 9 A fourth adhortatory stanza..demands in early ecological fervor: What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wilderness? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1534 |
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