Obs. or arch. [ad. L. cohortātiōn-em, n. of action f. cohortāri: see prec.] Exhortation.
1642. R. Watson, Serm. Schisme, 1. Saith he, in his cohortation.
1651. Howell, Venice, 207. A Cohortation … address’d to all Christian Princes.
1838. H. J. Rose, in Lives 12 Gd. Men (1880), I. 249. I made a solemn cohortation to all the students.
1870. Seeley, in Macm. Mag., Sept., 352/2. Like general orders in a camp, or the military cohortations of a Roman imperator.
