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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of supplicate.

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Examples

  • But at least your new god could try to agree with his role-models - FDR and JFK - by supporting democratic ideals instead of the clerics, mullahs, and dictator kings, to whom he bows and supplicates.

    CNN Poll: Americans don't want to intervene in Iran election crisis 2009

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2; or when Jesus claims that “my kingdom is not of this world”; or when the traditional Jew supplicates before God on the fast of Yom Kippur:

    The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

  • People who still in suffering reaches out to others, supplicates themselves for others; believe in others when they have given up believe in themselves.

    Sara is dead. Facing death: I look, instead of passing by. Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Thanks to my trusty Arabic-Koranic concordance, I have placed this phrase as part of Koran 2: 286, which supplicates Allah "to make us [Muslims] victorious over the nation of infidels."

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Achilles in discontent withdraws himself and his forces from the rest of the Greeks; and complaining to Thetis, she supplicates

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • The petition then most earnestly supplicates His Majesty to remove from the town a military power which the strictest truth warranted them in declaring unnecessary for the support of the civil authority among them, and which they could not but consider as unfavorable to commerce, destructive to morals, dangerous to law, and tending to overthrow the civil constitution.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

  • And that immaculate Spirit must have gazed down upon them from the realms on high, and bestowed upon them all His grace, and grieved over the grieving of them all, and consoled and soothed them all, and supplicated, even as He now supplicates, His Supreme Companion to grant unto every one of them fervour and joy, and ardour and bliss, and detachment from the world, and steadfast faith.

    Bahíyyih Khánum

  • Wherefore James Earl of Arran, Governor of our kingdom, supplicates that his Holiness the

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • The man who supplicates the fiercest tyrant only does so because he supposes that a fibre of goodness may still vibrate in that savage heart.

    The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

  • He supplicates his nobles in the disaffected provinces to meet him at Mayence; but his earnest prayers are disregarded.

    The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century George Henry Miles

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