(v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
(v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
(n.) Exhortation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in Isil [Islamic State] to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country.” Azari is being held in solitary confinement at the state’s super maximum security prison in Goulburn.
(2) Analysis of the videotapes revealed that the coaches (n = 11) at the bantam level often exhort their players to put more intensity in their physical contacts (legal body checking), but they more often encouraged them to control themselves and avoid penalties.
(3) At the end of the corridor is a presentation room, the walls bedaubed with exhortations to “Never, Never, Never Give Up”; up another staircase is a run of seminar rooms, in one of which a class of fledgling baristas are learning their trade.
(4) This cannot be done by throwing a traditionally trained doctor into such a setting and exhorting him to lead.
(5) This fact, the limited applicability of the information obtained from animal experiments, and the further fact that even test results obtained in human subjects cannot be applied on a world-wide basis, exhort us to take care not to subscribe to an all-too apodictic classification of therapeutic measures into effective and noneffective.
(6) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
(7) He exhorts him instead to "rage, rage against the dying of the light".
(8) These people stand at the edges of our avenues, of our streets, in deafening anonymity.” The passionate exhortation came hours after he addressed the United Nations , prayed at Ground Zero, visited a school in Harlem and cruised through Central Park, where 80,000 people greeted the 78-year-old Argentinean with rapture.
(9) The doctor, however, is charged against all exhortations of social Darwinism by society to help his patient to the best of his knowledge and skill.
(10) Shafik is clearly frustrated that years of exhortations against bank misbehaviour have yet to trigger genuine cultural change.
(11) They were on their feet between nearly every point, screaming with such manic intensity it was impossible to make out a word of their exhortations.
(12) Oh soldiers of the Islamic State , continue to harvest the [enemy] soldiers,” the recording exhorted in a key passage.
(13) Hence in casting their votes and electing members for the parliament, we urge and exhort them not to support pseudo-political leaders who betray our Tamil cause for liberation but to support candidates or parties who are loyal to the fundamental aspirations of all the Tamils within and outside of Sri Lanka."
(14) The Ukip leader, tongue firmly lodged in cheek, has recorded a “party political broadcast” on behalf of Paddy Power , exhorting punters to get behind Team Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup golf contest against the US.
(15) The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq.
(16) But we cannot wait for exhortations from an intergovernmental meeting before making the right choices concerning our £800m investment portfolio.
(17) Modern life is awash with tips on how to live well, exhorting us to practice gratitude, discover meaning and ponder our legacy.
(18) To soberly face our situation and begin the hard, slow-burning, patient work of reconstruction, or continue to rally to sloganistic exhortations, thinking that each new protest or strike might radically shift the balance in our favour?
(19) Five Leaves Left is one of those albums that seem tied to exhorting and then playing on a particular mood in the listener – like Astral Weeks and Forever Changes certainly and arguably stationed on that particular echelon of creativity (though I wouldn’t personally like to enter into that particular argument).
(20) It said it would look in particular at "whether these games include 'direct exhortations' to children – a strong encouragement to make a purchase, or to do something that will necessitate making a purchase, or to persuade their parents or other adults to make a purchase for them".
Propound
Definition:
(v. t.) To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
(v. t.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
Example Sentences:
(1) A critical review of these regimens quickly reveals that the majority are propounded with considerably more confidence than statistical proof of their efficacy.
(2) This paper, presented as part of a panel on the subject, has propounded the view that the defense is unconscionable, using that aspect of the definition dealing with unreasonableness.
(3) While the classical theory of menstrual reflux easily accounts for the genital locations, other theories, notably metaplasia, have been propounded to explain more remote locations.
(4) We can see from the examples discussed that there are many instances where principles, guidelines, rules or laws propounded for the benefit of one party may restrain autonomy, beneficence and justice done to another.
(5) In 1975 in southern Tamil Nadu, an aged practitioner of Ayurveda conducted for the author's benefit a series of lectures about cancer, in which he propounded his own idiosyncratic theory regarding the nature of this disease.
(6) This conclusion is contrary to that which has been propounded to explain the nonlinear dose curves obtained for specific locus mutations.
(7) Various theories about its pathogenesis have been propounded.
(8) A purely catabolic function of 5'-nucleotidase, as propounded in the literature, seems dubious since high 5'-nucleotidase activity was demonstrated in rapidly proliferating tissue too.
(9) Various theories on the best therapy have been propounded in the literature.
(10) In the light of two case-histories, one of which never published before, and on the basis of the Freudian theory of masochism, an interpretation of the data is propounded.
(11) This phenomenon is interpreted in the framework of an ongoing intergroup interaction among patients and between patients and staff, as conceptualized in the Tavistock Model propounded by Bion.
(12) However already propounded several years earlier by Leonhard, a distinction between bipolar and unipolar affective disorders has first been taken into general consideration during the last quarter of a century.
(13) In my book published in Paris (1986) I propound a new, radically different approach which takes into account Man's whole lifespan, without separating the various ages, and without separating old age from those that precede it.
(14) The pathoanatomic view ascribed to Virchow and propounded by Thomas Szasz has coexisted with the patient-centered or phenomenologic view for millenia.
(15) A clinical and mythological analysis is propounded.
(16) The efficacy of autogenous dermal grafts for carotid artery protection in head and neck surgery has been investigated experimentally and propounded clinically.
(17) The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
(18) On the basis of the analysis of five original and of 181 previously published observations since 1975: the histological, histogenetic, evolutive and epidemiologic patterns of renal angiomyolipoma are exposed; the symptoms at presentation and the clinical manifestations are analysed; some morbid associations of this affection are considered and, particularly, its particular relationship with the tuberous sclerosis is debated; the diagnosis of these angiomyolipomas is studied with special regard to the role of modern radiologic explorations; finally, is propounded a therapeutic codification, which relies mainly on surgery.
(19) Since the term traumatic pseudolipoma of the buccal mucosa was originally propounded to describe a traumatic herniation of the buccal fat pad, five additional cases have been reported.
(20) The traditional teaching of the subject in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Rosario National University, Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina, up to 1974 is subjected to critical analysis, and on this basis the need for the innovation is propounded and the method for applying it proposed.