enhort

English

Etymology

From Old French enhorter, enorter, Latin inhortari. Compare exhort.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Verb

enhort (third-person singular simple present enhorts, present participle enhorting, simple past and past participle enhorted)

(obsolete, transitive) To encourage.
To enhort the people. — Chaucer.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 enhort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Hornet, Rhoten, Theron, Thoren, Thorne, hornet, nother, other'n, throne

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