exhort Copy link • exhort: hortor, 1 (to urge in a friendly manner): Join: hortari et suadere, Cic.: hortari et monere, Suet.: v. to urge, advise. The comps. adhortor, cŏhortor, also freq. occur; the latter esp. in the case of generals addressing their troops: Caes.: Cic.: v. to encourage. (Exhortor, Vulg. Rom. xii. 8, etc.: but the word is unclass.)