exhorter
(ɛgˈzɔːtə(r))
Also 6 exhortoure, Sc. exhortar.
[f. exhort v. + -er1.]
1. One who exhorts or urges on to action. Obs.
| 1552 Huloet, Exhortoure, suasor. 1554 T. Martin Marr. Priests A a iv, A moste deuoute exhorter, & a most earnest perswader. 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 85/2 Socrates as being a Man Absolute and Perfect..never needed any exhorter. 1875 C. F. Wingate in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 146 He took a lively interest in prayer-meetings..and was an earnest exhorter. |
2. spec. In various Christian Churches, a person appointed to give religious exhortation under the direction of a superior minister. Cf. evangelist 3 c.
| 1513–75 Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Club) 88 It was ordanit be the Ministeris, exhortaris and reidaris of this realme. 1564 Act Edin. Gen. Assembly 25 Dec., An Act..‘Ordaining every Minister, Exhorter and Reader to have one of the Psalm Books’. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 40 The Generall Assemblie [to] appoynt the proportion how much shall a Superintendent have..how much ane Exhorter, how much a Reader. 1772 Wesley Jrnl. 5 June, One of these exhorters was Jacob Rowell. 1845 A. Wiley in Indiana Mag. Hist. (1927) XXIII. 202 He joined the church..and was made class-leader, then exhorter, and then local preacher. 1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt 253, I got hugged by a whole string of exhorters. |