Sollicit
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sollicit is a verb meaning Obsolete spelling of solicit.
Meaning
Obsolete spelling of solicit.
Example Sentences
That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128, […] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]
PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.
Word Forms
- sollicits
- solliciting
- sollicited
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