a. Obs. [f. L. adhortāt- (see prec.) + -ORY, as if ad. L. *adhortātōrius.] Of or pertaining to adhortation; hortatory; persuading or urging to a course.
1660. T. Stanley, Hist. Philos., III. II. 119. This ‘Wear not a Ring’ is likewise adhortatory.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, I. xxvi. (1715), 164. Some adhortatory Lessons … are to be privately inculcated.
[Also in mod. Dicts.]
