imploratory

English

Etymology

From Latin implōrātus + English -atory (suffix forming adjectives of, relating to, or connected with [the specified thing]).[1] Implōrātus is the perfect passive participle of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”): see further at implore.

Adjective

imploratory (comparative more imploratory, superlative most imploratory)

  1. (rare) Entreating, supplicatory.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace:
      On the 21st of March goes off that long exculpatory imploratory Letter: it is the first Letter that went off from Cardinal to Queen[.]

References
  1. Compare “imploratory, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2023.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “imploratory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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