hortatory

3 definitions found

hortatory - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hortatory \Hor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. hortatorius.]
     Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory;
     inciting; as, a hortatory speech. --Holland.
     [1913 Webster]

hortatory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hortatory
      adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative,
             exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]

hortatory - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "hortatory":
     admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary,
     coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic,
     directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational,
     educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative,
     expostulatory, homiletic, hortative, illuminating, informative,
     initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitorial,
     monitory, moralistic, persuading, persuasive, preaching, preachy,
     preceptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, remonstrant,
     remonstrative, remonstratory, self-teaching, sententious, suasive,
     teaching, tuitionary, warning, wheedling