enhort

English

Etymology

From Old French enhorter, enorter, Latin inhortari. Compare exhort.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Verb

enhort (third-person singular simple present enhorts, present participle enhorting, simple past and past participle enhorted)

(obsolete, transitive) To encourage.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
  To enhort the people
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enhort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

'nother, Hornet, Rhoten, Theron, Thoren, Thorne, hornet, nother, other'n, throne

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