Precative

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Suppliant; beseeching; expressing an entreaty or a desire: as, the precative mode.
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  • adjective. Suppliant; beseeching.
  • adjective. words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust.
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  • adjective. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty.
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  • adjective. expressing entreaty or supplication
    • Word Usage
    "The perfects ( 'asithi and hizkartssni) are converted and so become hortative or precative futures."
    Equivalent
    beseeching  imploring  pleading  precatory  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adjuratory  adorant  adoring  appealing  begging  
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