Precatory is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 477 anagrams from letters in precatory (aceoprrty).
1630-40; Late Latin precātōrius, equivalent to Latin precā(rī) to pray, entreat + -tōrius -tory1
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.
Still this sense has pleased the editors, and they have made "of goodnesse" a precatory and interjectional expression.
Many of the examples quoted by Roman controversialists are not precatory at all, but simply declarative.
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