Precative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Precative \Prec"a*tive\, Precatory \Prec"a*to*ry\, a. [L.
     precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See
     {Precarious}.]
     Suppliant; beseeching. --Bp. Hopkins.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Precatory words} (Law), words of recommendation, request,
        entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as
        distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases
        creating a trust. --Jarman.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  precative
       adj : expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
             [syn: {precatory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "precative":
     adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appealing, begging, beseeching,
     cadging, devotional, devout, entreating, imploring, in the dust,
     mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, pleading,
     prayerful, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential,
     scrounging, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating,
     supplicatory, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping