precatory
/prek-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈprɛk əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈprɛkətərɪ, -trɪ) //
早熟,早产,早期的,早产儿
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
Examples
Still this sense has pleased the editors, and they have made "of goodnesse" a precatory and interjectional expression.
The primitive forms of absolution, when confession was made to a priest, were precatory rather than declaratory.
The original form of absolution was “precatory rather than declaratory” (Plummer).
For this reason, recommendatory or precatory words used in a bequest are frequently treated as an express direction.
She got as far as Mattaincourt, sending fresh precatory letters to faithless Charles.
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