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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. expressing entreaty or supplication;
- Example: "precatory overtures"
[syn: precatory, precative]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Precative \Prec"a*tive\, Precatory \Prec"a*to*ry\, a. [L. precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See Precarious.] Suppliant; beseeching. --Bp. Hopkins. [1913 Webster] Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. --Jarman. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

precative adj 1: expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures" [syn: precatory, precative]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "precative": adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appealing, begging, beseeching, cadging, devotional, devout, entreating, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, scrounging, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping