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Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.

Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.

spiring dread. That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay.

Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.

sten; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Shak.

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle.

dvice; 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.

Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.

A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued…

The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation. [R.]

Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. Bullokar.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.

Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

Exhortation. [R.]

That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation. -- Per*sua"sive*ly, adv. -- Per*sua"sive*ness, n.

Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

, the subjunctive is often independent of any other verb, being used in wishes, commands, exhortations, etc.

To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.