precatory
21precatory — adj supplicatory, suppliant, petitionary; prayerful, imploring, beseeching, pleading, appealing; imprecatory, obtestatory, invocatory, adjuratory, rogatory; mendicant, begging, on bended knee or knees, on one s knees, prone, prostrate …
22precatory — prec·a·to·ry …
23precatory — /ˈprɛkətəri/ (say prekuhtuhree), / tri/ (say tree) adjective relating to, or of the nature of, or expressing entreaty or supplication. Also, precative /ˈprɛkətɪv/ (say prekuhtiv). {Late Latin precātōrius} …
24precatory — a. beseeching …
25precatory — /prekat(a)riy/ Having the nature of prayer, request, or entreaty; conveying or embodying a recommendation or advice or the expression of a wish, but not a positive command or direction …
26precatory — Beseeching. Entreating …
27precatory words — /prɛkətəri ˈwɜdz/ (say prekuhtuhree werdz) plural noun Law words in a legal instrument making a gift of property, expressing the wish that it be put to a particular purpose …
28precatory words — Words of request, recommendation, suggestion, or expectation. Re Bernheim, 82 Mont 198, 266 P 378, 57 ALR 1169. Words whose ordinary significance imports entreaty, recommendation, or expectation, rather than mandatory direction, such as, desire,… …
29precatory words — noun plural : words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation employed in legal instruments (as wills) and often resulting in no effective gift or rights being created …
30verba precaria — Precatory words. See precatory words …
