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WORD FOR THE DAY: HORTATIVE
MIRIAM-WEBSTER
| 12/28/17
Posted on 12/27/2017 11:32:23 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
Word For The Day,
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
HORTATIVE
[HOOR ta tev]
hear it pronounced
adjective
"We give nothing so freely as advice," observed French writer François de la Rochefoucauld in 1665. Hortative and exhort (meaning "to urge earnestly") are two words that testify to our eagerness to counsel others. Both trace to Latin hortari, meaning "to urge." Hortative has been used as both a noun (meaning "an advisory comment") and an adjective since the 17th century, but the noun is now extremely rare. You may also encounter the adjectives hortatory, exhortatory, and exhortative, all of which have the same meaning as hortative.
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To: blueunicorn6
I have noticed that bad tends to get worse. This is the worse to date. Must take a certain kind of brain....
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:42:16 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: ptsal
Such magnificent alliteration. Well done old pal.
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:43:38 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Fightin Whitey
Yes he did and it was BAD!
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:44:52 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: dblshot
The tweet heat from DJT is misdirection at its best. Keeps the progs chasing their tails. He is a whiz. Watta guy.
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:47:21 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:48:20 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Texan5
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:50:03 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Well, I’m not the one starting a thread about a dirty word.
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:50:43 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: left that other site
Only a few rather delineated more ways, as per your comment.
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:51:57 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Louis Foxwell
thank you
I thought about working in the *PostBot* but that might have been pushing too hard.
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posted on
12/27/2017 12:53:14 PM PST
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: ptsal
Postbot completely zips over my head.
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posted on
12/27/2017 1:09:22 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Melania received a hortatory horticultural report from the White House gardeners and decided to have the dying Jackson Magnolia replaced with a sapling sprouted from the old tree.
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posted on
12/27/2017 1:19:41 PM PST
by
henbane
To: Louis Foxwell
It was!!
lol
Thanks for being a good guy sportatively!
To: Louis Foxwell
The more that comes out, the more karma bites them, it seems...
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posted on
12/27/2017 1:49:08 PM PST
by
Texan5
(`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: Louis Foxwell
Quintus Arrius: “Battle speed, Hortator.”
— from the movie Ben-Hur
To: Louis Foxwell
To: Louis Foxwell
Let me count the ways! LOL!
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:11:45 PM PST
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: ptsal; Louis Foxwell
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:31:37 PM PST
by
MoochPooch
(I'm a compassionate cynic.)
To: ptsal
Despite my hortative nudging and pulling, my good dog refused to go out into the swirling snow and -10 degree windchill.
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:53:24 PM PST
by
bitt
(The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
To: bitt
Good dog. Knows his center.
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posted on
12/27/2017 5:45:36 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Islam is Satans finest work.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Dr. Leonard McCoy was extremely Hortative that he was NOT a bricklayer
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:13:06 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Countdown to 2018 BUMP)
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