adhort
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin adhortor. See adhortation.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editadhort (third-person singular simple present adhorts, present participle adhorting, simple past and past participle adhorted)
- (obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- That eight-times Martyr'd Mother in the Maccabees when she would adhort her Son to a passive Fortitude against the exacuated Tortures of Antiochus, she desires him to look upon the Heavems, the Earth, and all in them contained.
- 1676, Nicholas French, The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends:
- adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “adhort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.