About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- precatory
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

precatory

 : 
Adjective
 : 
prec=a=to=ry

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective precatory has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

precatorya. [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.

ROGET THESAURUS

precatory

Request

N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.

copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion