intransitive verb. To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal.

intransitive verb. To make an urgent appeal.

noun. The act of exhorting; an exhortation.

To incite by words or advice; animate or urge by arguments to some act, or to some course of conduct or action; stir up.

To advise; admonish; caution.

Synonyms To incite, stimulate, encourage; appeal to, beg, enjoin, adjure.

To deliver exhortation; ecclesiastical, to use appeals or arguments to incite; practise public exhortation.

transitive verb. To incite by words or advice; 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.

noun. Exhortation.

intransitive verb. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

verb. To urge; to advise earnestly.

verb. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

verb. force or impel in an indicated direction

"He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom."

hortative  hortatory  

exhortation  exhortative  exhorted  exhorting  

Court  Dort  Mort  Porte  Stuart  

admonish  advise  advocate  blandish  cajole  

exhortatively  exhortator  exhorted  exhorting  exhorts