Obs. In 7 Sc. exhortans. [f. as prec. + -ANCE.] = EXHORTATION.

1

  (But possibly exhortans may be an abbreviation in the MS. for exhortations.)

2

c. 1646.  T. Craufurd, Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808), 45. He [Mr. Robert Rollock] … with most pithy exhortans setting them on to vertue and pietie.

3