Word Meanings - EXHORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to

Additional info about word: EXHORT

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.

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• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• EXHORTER
  One who exhorts or incites.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• LAUDABLE
  Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions;
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• ADVISER
  One who advises.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• LAUDABLENESS
  The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• EXHORTATORY
  Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• EXHORTATION
  1. The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable. 2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.