supplicate

Verb

supplicate (third-person singular simple present supplicates, present participle supplicating, simple past and past participle supplicated)

1. (transitive) To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
   • "Your Petitioner, in all Submiſſiveneſs, moſt humbly ſupplicateth your Honourable Lordſhips, to be pleaſed to diſpenſe vvith your Petitioner's Attendance, until God ſhall better enable him." Ordered, That this Houſe doth diſpenſe vvith Mr. Baron [Edward] Henden’s Abſence,^([sic – meaning presence])...1642 October 29 (Gregorian calendar), “Baron Henden’s Petition for Leave of Absence”, in Journals of the House of Lords, Beginning Anno Decimo Octavo Caroli Regis, 1642 (House of Lords), volume V...
   • Peter nobly acknowledgeth error, ſuſpecteth an interfering Devil, and ſupplicateth his Reader— […]1788, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “The Argument”, in An Apologetic Postscript to Ode upon Ode. […], new edition, London: […] G. Kearsley, […], →OCLC, page 6

   Synonyms:

   implore, obsecrate, petition, plead, pray, sifflicate, thig

   1. (archaic, specifically, transitive, Oxford University) Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
      • In Nov. 1561 he [William Alley] ſupplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of the Univerſity that the Degree of Bach[elor] of Divinity might be conferr'd on him: vvhich being granted, he ſupplicated for that of Doctor; and that being granted alſo, he vvas admitted to them both ſucceſſively...1691, [Anthony Wood], “WILLIAM ALLEY”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the...
   2. (specifically, transitive) To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
      • to supplicate the Deity
      • [T]hou maiſt freely lay open thy mind to him [Jesus] in prayer, vvhat ever diſtreſs or vvant thou art in come to him in prayer and thou needſt not fear he vvill vvell knovv vvhat it is thou ſupplicateſt him about; […]1664, Tho[mas] Worden, “I Come Now to Speak of the High Priest under the Law, which was a Type of Jesus Christ also”, in The Types Unvailed, or, The Gospel Pick’t Out of the Legal Ceremonies, whereby...
2. (transitive) To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
   • to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel
   • [A]nd vvhat art thou that ſupplicateſt my aſſiſtance?1788 October, D. [pseudonym], “Letter from an English Gentleman in France to His Brother in England”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their...

   Synonyms:

   solicit

3. (intransitive) To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
   • Thus alſo the Church of Svveueland ſupplicateth to the Emperour of Germanie, if ſo bee that in time, vvee may not haue opportunitie for a generall Councell, yet at the lest your Maiestie may appoint a prouinciall aſſembly, &c.1613, Andrew Willet, “The Third Generall Controversie, Concerning Councels”, in Synopsis Papismi, that is, A Generall View of Papistrie: […], 4th edition, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man...
   • A man cannot ſometimes brooke to Supplicate or Beg: […] But all theſe Things, are Gracefull in a Frends Mouth, vvhich are bluſhing in a Mans Ovvne.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Frendship. XXVII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 163

   Synonyms:

   sifflicate, thig

   1. (intransitive, specifically, Oxford University) Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
      • He [Robert Talbot] vvas educated […] in Logicals and Philoſophicals in New Coll[ege] of vvhich he became Fellovv (after he had ſerved tvvo Years of probation) an[no] 1523. and left it 5 Years after, being then only Bach[elor] of Arts, ſupplicated for the Degree of Maſter 1529, but not admitted, as...1691, [Anthony Wood], “ROBERT TALBOT”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the...
      • Incorporations, Or ſuch vvho have taken a Degree in another Univerſity, and have been embodied or taken into the boſom of this of Oxon., and have enjoyed the ſame Liberties and Privileges, as if they had taken their Degree here. […] Rich[ard] Kirkby Maſt[er] of Arts of this Univ[ersity] and...1691, [Anthony Wood], “Fasti Oxonienses”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from...