The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hortative \Hor"ta*tive\, a. [L. hortativus.]
Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative.
--Bullokar.
Hortative \Hor"ta*tive\, n. An exhortation. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin hortativus, from past participle stem of hortari âto exhortâ (see hortatory).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context comparable English) urging, exhorting, or encouraging. 2 (context grammar not comparable English) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. n. (context grammar English) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
WordNet
adj. giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory]
Wikipedia
The hortative (; abbreviated ) is a group of semantically similar deontic modalities in some languages. Hortative modalities encourage or urge. In English, there are seven hortative modalities: the adhortative, exhortative, suprahortative, cohortative, dehortative, inhortative, and infrahortative. They differ by intensity, attitude (for or against), and—in the case of the cohortative— person.
Usage examples of "hortative".
It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred.