Obs. [f. prec. vb.] = EXHORTATION.
c. 1475. Partenay, 3972. By the exort of vntrew man.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. Pref. The princely exhorte, whiche … our foresaid gracyous soueraygne gaue me.
1590. Lodge, Euphues Gold. Leg. Did he make a large exhort unto concord?
1611. Chapman, Iliad, XI. 183/146. Euerie where he breath’d exhorts.
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, XII. 324. Drown Hector’s Vaunts in loud Exhorts of Fight.
1829. A. W. Fonblanque, Engl. under 7 Administr. (1837), I. 238. Perpetual exhorts to a new birth unto Toryism.
