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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to turn forward, to urge on.]

Adapted to persuade; hortatory; persuasive.

[Obs.]

Bp. Ward.

Adj.

[Gr. to exhort; and to turn.] Hortatory; suasory; intended or adapted to persuade. [Little used.]