Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.
- intransitive verb To make a humble entreaty to; beseech.
- intransitive verb To make a humble, earnest petition; beg.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To beg for; seek or invoke by earnest prayer: as, to
supplicate a blessing. - To address or appeal to in prayer: as, to
supplicate the throne of grace. - Synonyms Request, Beg, etc. See
ask , and list under solicit. - To entreat humbly; beseech; implore; petition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
- transitive verb To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly.
- transitive verb To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To humble oneself before another in making a request; to
beg . - verb To
plead with one'sdeity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb ask humbly (for something)
- verb ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
- verb make a humble, earnest petition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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_Erynnis_, from the indignation and perturbations they raise in the mind; _Eumenĭdes_, from their placability to such as supplicate them, as in the instance of Orestes, and Argos, upon his following the advice of
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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May I "supplicate" Rodriguez to purchase a copy of William Strunk and E.B. White's
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Rabbi Akibah took one bite of the divine bounty, and proposed that God set up a restaurant where families might convene and supplicate praise onto his Name while enjoying shrimp-avocado tacos and flame-broiled hanger steak fresh off the grill.
Doug Lieblich: Holy Smokes: A Visit to God's Rotisserie Chicken Restaurant Doug Lieblich 2011
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Another Republican has had to supplicate to Rush Limbaugh.
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Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
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On top of that, you have to supplicate in front of a officer whose salary is paid out of the money that you pay as a tax payer.
Congress government must increase public access to data Venky 2009
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Rabbi Akibah took one bite of the divine bounty, and proposed that God set up a restaurant where families might convene and supplicate praise onto his Name while enjoying shrimp-avocado tacos and flame-broiled hanger steak fresh off the grill.
Doug Lieblich: Holy Smokes: A Visit to God's Rotisserie Chicken Restaurant Doug Lieblich 2011
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On top of that, you have to supplicate in front of a officer whose salary is paid out of the money that you pay as a tax payer.
Archive 2009-05-24 Venky 2009
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Islam teaches that the individual who commits suicide has so offended his or her Creator that believers are not allowed to supplicate on behalf of his soul.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play 2010
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Our ingrained habit is to smile, to appease, to placate, to supplicate and to accept the behavior of the powerful, especially when we stand next to them.
Adam Galinsky: Research on Power Teaches Why Blagojevich Did What he Did (...and Why he Might Get Away With It) Adam Galinsky 2010
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