Strongly dissuade (someone) from a course of action.
they dehorted him from going to Babylon
Example sentencesExamples
The evil against which the Hebrews were dehorted was no mere occasionally absenting themselves from the Christian Churches, but a deliberate, fixed and final departure from them.
Neither the church nor any man is dehorted here from praying for any sinner yet living.
Ezekiel was directed to speak to them with God's own words, the sum and purport whereof was to warn and dehort them from their wicked ways.
Envying and fretting meet in the same persons, and are equally dehorted from.
They have also writ to the Prince dehorting him from that Course of Opposition he is now in.