Hortatory \Hor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. hortatorius.]
Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory;
inciting; as, a hortatory speech. --Holland.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hortatory
adj : giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory,
hortative]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
exhortative, exhortatory, hortative
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