admonish, call on, coax, expostulate, incite, issue a caveat, nag, preach, prod, recommend, spur, warn
Definitionv. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
Last update: September 19, 2015
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His father exhorted him to take the civil services exam. [verb]
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The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness; but happily, for that time, escaped close contact with the whale; and therefore came off not altogether discreditably; though Stubb observing him, took care, afterwards, to exhort him to cherish his courageousness to the utmost, for he might often find it needful. [verb]
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Antoine, taken to the secret meetings of the persecuted Calvinists, began, when only seventeen, to speak and exhort in these congregations of "the desert." [verb]
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They exhorted her to be of cheerful mind, and to fear nothing for her future welfare. [verb]
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"-- and he continued to exhort her to expedition until they reached the Castle." [verb]
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They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies. [verb]
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Then, in burning words, he exhorted all the followers of Serapis to fight and conquer for their god, or--if need must--to perish for and with him. [verb]
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Thus exhorted by the mendicant, Dousterswivel struggled and laboured among the stones and stiff clay, toiling like a horse, and internally blaspheming in German. [verb]
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They usually begin by sending the culprit to the priests, and the latter, to their shame be it said, always exhort him to obedience. [verb]
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