precative

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
precative
    adj 1: expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory
           overtures" [syn: {precatory}, {precative}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Precative \Prec"a*tive\, Precatory \Prec"a*to*ry\, 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.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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