| 单词 | precatory |
| 例句 | There was something soothing about listening to two hours of Supreme Court arguments Tuesday, as the justices distinguished the “hortatory” from the merely “precatory” and traded hypotheticals about lawn-mowing, tree-planting and war bonds. Opinion | A Supreme Court that still backs Obamacare won’t endorse Trump’s cockamamie coup 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Breyer argued the “shall” was “precatory” language, similar to other congressional measures asking people to buy war bonds or planting a tree. Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Affordable Care Act over latest challenge from Trump, GOP 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z As a so-called precatory proposal, it is not legally binding on the company. Fair Game: Break Up the Bank? It’s Not for You to Ask 2014-03-01T16:10:50Z The latter part of the Absolution is taken from the ancient Office, and is declaratory, the first clause being precatory. The Church Handy Dictionary The blessing at the end of the office should stand, as in the English Book, in the precatory form; otherwise we might have the anomaly of a benediction pronounced before the end of the service. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer For this reason, recommendatory or precatory words used in a bequest are frequently treated as an express direction. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The doctrine of immortality, and of a future retribution, 85 the practice of sacrifice--precatory and expiatory, are also ascribed to the same source. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles He spoiled it a little by giving it a methodistical and precatory intonation. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 Very true, religion has operated mainly with precatory rites for the purpose of deflecting God's wrath, or, as Mr. James would say, with some sneaking design upon His bounty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Your host was in his turn eloquent,—authoritative,—facetious, —argumentative,—precatory,—pathetic, above all, pertinacious. Political Pamphlets Before long the precatory form of absolution is replaced by the indicative form by which the priest declared the sinner absolved. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 Adj. requesting &c. v.; precatory†; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory†. importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases |
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