Definition of "cohortative" []

• Inflected to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose, or consequence. (adjective)
• The cohortative mood. (noun)

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• "A certain kind of fictionalist might claim that the real meaning of “Stealing is wrong” should be rendered in the cohortative mood (which in English is not grammatically distinguished from imperative): “Let's pretend that stealing is wrong.”"
• "The double cohortative lends an urgency to his words, that make it appear that he is eager to receive the blessing."
• "Nedhe'ah is cohortative (K.S. 198 b) and really stronger than our translation can readily reproduce, viz.,"