adhort

English

Etymology

From Latin adhortor. See adhortation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t/, /ədˈhɔː(ɹ)t/

Verb

adhort (third-person singular simple present adhorts, present participle adhorting, simple past and past participle adhorted)

1. (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

• adhortative

 

References

• “adhort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Hotard, Rathod