Exhorting

When I came back they were exhorting from the highest seats of authority to grow twenty-five per cent. less wheat or the bottom would fall out of the universe. ❋ Unknown (1934)

You have done very well in exhorting them to live up to the rules of the community, for in matters of reform, when people obtain any concession, however small, by force of clamouring, they immediately imagine that they have only to continue in order to obtain everything. ❋ Unknown (1902)

But if liberty was given to others to exercise themselves occasionally in exhorting the brethren, generally, or small parties of the less instructed, the reference may be to them. he that giveth -- in the exercise of private benevolence probably, rather than in the discharge of diaconal duty. with simplicity -- so the word probably means. ❋ Unknown (1871)

On receiving intelligence of the safety of the Earl, he visited the clan, and was strenuous in exhorting them to immediate action. ❋ Unknown (1789)

… therefore it is incumbent upon all patriotic Americans to be vigilant, and vocal in exhorting our/your local elections officials to get optical scanning votin machines installed BEFORE this election … ❋ Unknown (2006)

On the Offensive See a script of Countrywide's telephone conference call exhorting internal "opinion leaders" to help repair its image. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This age-old resentment translates itself into the need for Old Europe to devote much more effort to "exhorting" the "post-communist" members than it would like to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is used most frequently by St. Luke in a very intense signification; and is sometimes joined with exhorting, which is an earnest persuading to a thing, (Acts ii. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

As for the phrase magic mushroom, it would have to wait until 1957, when it first turned up in a Life magazine article that a young Professor Timothy Leary would read with interest before trying magic mushrooms himself and exhorting everyone else in the USA similarly to indulge. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

They need to take responsibility for their actions like they are always exhorting others to do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its called a dirty burger and the staff wears Tshirts exhorting you to "Do it dirty for a dollar" which is what they charge to add the egg. ❋ Homesick Texan (2009)

WASHINGTON—The Senate on Tuesday blocked President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs bill, highlighting the confrontation between Republicans and a president who has been traveling the country exhorting Congress to pass the measure. ❋ Naftali Bendavid (2011)

In September, the Rev. Gordon sent out a mass letter to churches exhorting them to support Project Jeremiah 2010. ❋ Tyler Kingkade (2010)

They were scheduling two and sometimes three finance events a day for Morrison, and they had him on the phone every spare moment, exhorting members of his finance committee to meet their targets ahead of schedule. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

Two of Gadhafi's sons — al-Saadi and Seif al-Islam — reportedly were in Bani Walid at some point after the fall of Tripoli, exhorting loyalists to keep fighting. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On Thursday, Gadhafi himself dismissed talk of his flight, saying in an audio broadcast that he's still in Libya, and exhorting followers to keep fighting. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Or, for that matter, preaching the Secret Gospel of Mark, arguing that Jesus was a homosexual, or exhorting patients to emulate David and Jonathan's intimacy -- which we hold to have been sexual. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

I am being exhorted [to tell] you that you are [bad] at [drawing]. ❋ Hanasakurou (2016)

The girl told the [lawyer] about her [adultery] as if it was an exhortation and the lawyer [mocked] her for it. ❋ Skater218 (2007)

He exhorted his people to take back their [land]. She exhorted her listeners to [support] the [proposition]. ❋ Learn Something (2022)