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precative

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prec=a=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

precativea. [L. precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See Precarious.].
     Suppliant; beseeching.  Bp. Hopkins.  [1913 Webster]
Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. Jarman.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

precative, adj. (of a word or form) expressing a wish or request.

Etymology
LL precativus f. precari pray

THESAURUS

precative

adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appealing, begging, beseeching, cadging, devotional, devout, entreating, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, scrounging, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping

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