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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. giving strong encouragement;
[syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hortatory \Hor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. hortatorius.] Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hortatory adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "hortatory": admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary, coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, homiletic, hortative, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, persuading, persuasive, preaching, preachy, preceptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, self-teaching, sententious, suasive, teaching, tuitionary, warning, wheedling