To exhort, encourage, or urge someone strongly toward an action or goal (very archaic term).
From Latin adhortari, where ad- means 'to' and hortari means 'to encourage' or 'to urge.' The word is an extremely rare English verb, appearing mainly in early modern texts.
Adhort is so archaic that most English speakers have never seen it, yet it beautifully captures how Roman language worked—they could add ad- to verbs to mean 'toward' the action, so adhort means 'to encourage toward'!
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