FromLatinadhortor. Seeadhortation.
- IPA(key): /ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t/,/ədˈhɔː(ɹ)t/
adhort (third-person singular simple presentadhorts,present participleadhorting,simple past and past participleadhorted)
- (obsolete) Toexhort; toadvise.
1623, Owen Feltham,Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:That eight-times Martyr'd Mother in the Maccabees when she wouldadhort her Son to a passive Fortitude against the exacuated Tortures of Antiochus, she desires him to look upon the Heavems, the Earth, and all in them contained.
1676, Nicholas French,The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends:adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace