hortative

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For the ellipsis see n. on 26 DENIQUE: 'in short UTARE: the second person of the present subjunctive hortative is very rare, excepting when, as here, the command is general.

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  1. adjective Hortatory.

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  • For the ellipsis see n. on 26 DENIQUE: 'in short UTARE: the second person of the present subjunctive hortative is very rare, excepting when, as here, the command is general. —  Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes
  • Parson, under high excitement, rained his hortative oratory upon me. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
  • W. conceives wrece as optative or hortative, and places a colon before þonne. l. —  Beowulf
  • It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir —  Ulysses
  • He has fourteen moods; his _interrogative, optative, hortative, promissive, precautive, requisitive, enunciative_, &c. But as far as philosophical accuracy and the convenience and advantage of the learner are concerned, it is believed that no arrangement is preferable to the following. —  English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
 

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  1. Late Latin hortātīvus, from Latin hortātus, past participle of hortārī, to exhort; see gher-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French hortatif = Portuguese hortativo (rare), from Latin hortativus, that serves for encouragement, from hortari, encourage, incite: see hortation.
 

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