Definitions for precatory

precatory prec·a·to·ry

Spelling: [prek-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈprɛk əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

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).

Definitions for precatory

adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication:

Origin of precatory

1630-40; Late Latin precātōrius, equivalent to Latin precā(rī) to pray, entreat + -tōrius -tory1

Examples for precatory

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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