Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing acts of supplication; supplicatory; precatory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • rare Expecting a wish; supplicatory.

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  • adjective Expecting a wish; supplicatory.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • There is only that which is euctical [399] and declarative left to us.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Pronouncing the blessing is only euctical and declarative, and not authoritative.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And so in Paul's euctical conclusion unto his epistles, the Son is placed before the Father: 2 Cor. xiii.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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