Meaning

To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
2. To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
3. To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.

Example Sentences

"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]) until his Health vvill permit him to come hither vvith Safety.

Peter nobly acknowledgeth error, ſuſpecteth an interfering Devil, and ſupplicateth his Reader— […]

[H]e had been conjoined with Petrarch to supplicate Clement VI. to remove the Holy See from Avignon to Rome.

Did they hear me, would they listen, did they pity me supplicating? / Shall I heed them in their anguish? shall I brook to be supplicated?

Yea for health he calleth upon that which is weak, / And for life he beseecheth that which is dead, / And for aid he supplicateth that which hath least experience, […]

to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel

[A]nd vvhat art thou that ſupplicateſt my aſſiſtance?

The blood of atonement thou never soughtest. The grace of God thou never supplicatedst—they were unnecessary and contemptuous to thee, and now thou must bear thy burden alone, […]

Word Forms

• supplicates
• supplicating
• supplicated

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