hortatory

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

hortatory
    adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: {exhortative},
           {exhortatory}, {hortative}, {hortatory}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hortatory \Hor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. hortatorius.]
   Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory;
   inciting; as, a hortatory speech. --Holland.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "hortatory":
      admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary,
      coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic,
      directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational,
      educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative,
      expostulatory, homiletic, hortative, illuminating, informative,
      initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitorial,
      monitory, moralistic, persuading, persuasive, preaching, preachy,
      preceptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, remonstrant,
      remonstrative, remonstratory, self-teaching, sententious, suasive,
      teaching, tuitionary, warning, wheedling