v. Obs. Also 4 enhurte, 4–5 enort. [a. OF. enhort-er, enort-er:—L. inhortāri, f. in- (see IN-) + hortāri to exhort.] trans. To exhort, encourage, incite. Const. to with inf., and simply. Also with sb. as obj.: To recommend, suggest, insist upon.
1382. Wyclif, 2 Sam. xi. 25. Coumfort thi fiȝters aȝens the cytee … and enhurte hem. Ibid. (1388), Ep. Jerome, iii. To Tymothe … he [Paul] wryteth, and enorteth the studie of lessoun.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, G iij. Euery good woman ought to enhorte her husbond to serue God.
Hence Enhorting vbl. sb.; Enhortment, the action of exhorting, an exhortation.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 150/2. Eue by thenhortyng of the deuyl gaf her consente to doo the synne of Inobedyence. Ibid. (1475), Jason, 124. Peleus sente you into colchos by his enhortement.
