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precative

HYPHEN

prec=a=tive

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective precative has 1 sense

precative(s = adj.all) precatory - expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

precative, 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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

precative, adj. (of a word or form) expressing a wish or request.

Etymology

LL precativus f. precari pray

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THESAURUS

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

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