Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exhort

Exhort , transitive verb

[Latin exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; compare French exhorter. See Hortative.]

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
Examples gross as earth exhort me. — Shakespeare
Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. — J. D. Forbes

Exhort , intransitive verb

To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
With many other words did he testify and exhort. — Acts ii. 40

Exhort , noun

Exhortation. [Obsolete] — Pope