obsecrate

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  1. To beseech; entreat; supplicate. Cockeram. Andrew Fairservice employed his lungs in obsecrating a share of Dougal's protection. Scott, Rob Roy, xxxi.

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  1. from Latin obsecratus, past participle of obsecrare (later Italian ossecrare = Portuguese obsecrar), entreat, beseech, conjure in solemn sort, from ob, before, + sacrare, treat as sacred, sacer, sacred: see sacre, sacred.
 

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