Hortatory

In pieces which may be called hortatory, the pulpit eloquence, as it were, of a poet addressing his contemporaries on public matters, the utterances of a patriot and a citizen moved by pity for his fellows, such poetry as the _Discours des Misères de ce Temps_ and the ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)

I learned, from a single sentence, the terms "hortatory", "nugatory", and "fiduciary", which in context were synonyms describing laws with no actual effect. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He employed elegiac verse as a vehicle for every kind of political and social poetry; some of the poems were sung to the flute at banquets and are more akin to lyric poetry; others, described as {gnomai di elegeias}, elegiac sentences, can hardly be distinguished in essence from "hortatory" epigrams, and two of them have accordingly been included as epigrams of Life in this selection. ❋ Anonymous (1902)

These include instructional booklets, hortatory stories, and advice about safety on everything from disposing of chemical waste to surviving nuclear war. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But now there are these hortatory statements by content owners, saying no use without permission: is seeing them sufficient to remove our rights? ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

The conservative scholar James Q. Wilson called it "bland, vague, hortatory and lacking in substance." ❋ Unknown (2012)

Unlike "We can absorb a terrorist attack," which taken literally is merely descriptive, the Globe's statement is hortatory. ❋ James Taranto (2010)

Oh, there is the hortatory statement that they will require "a full accounting of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid" and prevent "the expansion of unfunded liabilities," but what does that mean? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bill contains hortatory language but is precariously weak in the details. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Veriword is "ecatio" which sounds like a Greek or Spanish hortatory. ❋ Fresca (2010)

The war affected the DeMille unit only marginally; Jeanie Macpherson spent her free time, of which she had a great deal, writing bad hortatory poetry about the conflict. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

These resolutions pass because they are purely hortatory, but a resolution with real teeth authorizing a commission will be a much heavier lift. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Todd Sharp strung together some of the hortatory slogans on me back of local buses (DEATH MAY BE WORSE; WHY WORRY; NO MONEY, NO FRIEND) into a song called ❋ Unknown (2010)

A “half-assed” bill, as Senator Lindsey Graham so aptly put it (before he made a politically-driven U-turn), will not do the job because investors are smart enough to recognize the difference between a real commitment and a hortatory one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stepping into a role not unlike the one he had played in the compact negotiations of 1922, he summoned business executives, bankers, and leaders of state and local governments in late 1929 to a string of hortatory meetings at the White House. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

Soon after I arrived, everyone gathered around a speakerphone, and Obama himself, between votes on the Senate floor, gave a brief hortatory speech telling volunteers to call wavering Edwards delegates in Iowa before the county conventions that Saturday (they took place two months after the presidential caucuses). ❋ Unknown (2008)