apprecatory
English
editAdjective
editapprecatory (comparative more apprecatory, superlative most apprecatory)
- (obsolete) Praying or wishing well.
- 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
- apprecatory […] benedictions
Usage notes
edit- Not to be confused with appreciatory.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “apprecatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)