Definition of Exhort

Executive

EXHORT verb, transitive

	In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Exile

Regular definition:

EXHORT:
???z?:t v.tr. (often foll. by to + infin.) urge or advise strongly or earnestly. øøexhortative adj. exhortatory adj. exhorter n. [ME f. OF exhorter or L exhortari (as EX-(1), hortari exhort)]

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