The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhortatory
Exhortatory \Ex*hor"ta*to*ry\a. [L. exhortatorius: cf. F.
exhortatoire.]
Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.
--Holinshed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exhortatory
early 15c., from Late Latin exhortatorius, from Latin exhortari (see exhort).
Wiktionary
exhortatory
a. Serving to exhort.
WordNet
exhortatory
adj. giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, hortative, hortatory]
Usage examples of "exhortatory".
The duty in our text, with the duty in our hands, pressing them on still in an exhortatory way.
And the saint commended her unto the care of the holy virgin Cethuberis, who first of all the women of Ireland had received from him the veil, and to whom, being placed over the Monastery of Druimduchan, with a great multitude of virgins serving Christ, the saint himself addressed an exhortatory epistle.