exhilarative

[Eng. exhilarat (e): -ive.] Tending to exhilarate or cheer; exhilarating. "There is an exhilarative property in the air."-London Daily Telegraph. ex-hort', *ex-hort-en, v . t . & i. [Fr. exhorter, from Lat. exhort or ; ex out, fully, and hortor = to urge, to encourage; Sp. exhortar ; Ital. esortare .] A. Transitive : 1. To incite by words to any good or laudable action; to admonish; to advise or encourage by argument. "I exhort you to be of good cheer."- Acts xxvii. 22. *2. To recommend, to urge, to advise. "We, perhaps, Designing or exhorting glorious war." Milton: P. L., ii. 179. B. In trans.: To make use of or deliver exhort a tions; to urge, to persuade, to encourage. "And with many other words did he testify and exhort." -Acts ii. 40. Crabb thus discriminates between to exhort and to persuade: " Exhortation has more of impelling in it: persuasion more of drawing; a superior exhorts ; his words carry authority with them, and rouse to action: a friend and an equal persuades : he wins and draws by the agreeablene or kindne of his expre ions. Exhortations are employed only in matters of duty or nece ity: persuasions are employed in matters of pleasure or convenience." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) *ex-hort', s . [EXHORT, v.] An exhortation, a cheering, an encouragement. *ex-hort-ançe, *ex-hort-ans, s. [Latin, pr. par. of exhort or .] Exhortation. *ěx-hor-ta-ry, a. [Eng. exhort ; -ary.] Tending to exhort; exhortatory.