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[syn: precatory, precative]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Precative \Prec"a*tive\, Precatory \Prec"a*to*ry\, a. [L.
precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See
Precarious.]
Suppliant; beseeching. --Bp. Hopkins.
[1913 Webster]
Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request,
entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as
distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases
creating a trust. --Jarman.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
precative
adj 1: expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory
overtures" [syn: precatory, precative]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "precative":
adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appealing, begging, beseeching,
cadging, devotional, devout, entreating, imploring, in the dust,
mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, pleading,
prayerful, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential,
scrounging, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating,
supplicatory, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping