0 past simple and past participle of exhort
1 to strongly encourage or try to persuade someone to do something:
For instance, kindness can be exhorted, but its full meaning can be conveyed over a range of instances only by example.
Shopkeepers were exhorted to handle their goods with care and to create a clean environment and an orderly atmosphere.
In particular, he referred to physicians that are exhorted to deal with poverty, population health and housing issues.
He exhorted virtue as the key to the successful pursuit of that life.
Furthermore, they exhorted professionals in the field to actively seek to fulfill more than one of these functions.
Even confessors were exhorted to scrutinize the conscience of the sinner in confession as a physician scrutinizes wounds.
The word given in the second line exhorted the use of the target structure.
It is one which other ecclesiastical archivists can only be exhorted to follow.
