solicit

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Louis certainly held that opinion; and he afterwards instructed D'Estrades to solicit from the English court the punishment of those Londoners who had insulted his ambassador, and to demand the dismissal of De Batteville.

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  1. transitive verb To seek to obtain by persuasion, entreaty, or formal application: a candidate who solicited votes among the factory workers.
  2. transitive verb To petition persistently; importune: solicited the neighbors for donations.
  3. transitive verb To entice or incite to evil or illegal action.
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  • But I thought from the beginning and I still think that it is superfluous for any man whose life and works have been public property for twenty years to make a profession of faith There are some men whom the votes solicit, and there are others who must solicit votes, and it is the latter who must prove the soundness of their political views. —  Honoré de Balzac
  • Now me, if I went into their office and needed help-solicit information or something-and Larry wasn't around, I didn't hesitate to ask Jim for help. —  Comic Book Resources
  • What that means in Maryland is that during the 90 day legislative session the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, or any General Assembly member cannot receive a contribution, conduct a fundraiser, solicit or sell a ticket to a fundraiser, or even deposit any campaign funds. —  Maryland Politics Watch
  • You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Web site with respect to their User Submissions. —  NEWSCHANNEL5 Headlines
  • Did you solicit orders from Goldarrow in your own name? —  Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English soliciten, to disturb, from Old French solliciter, from Latin sollicitāre, from sollicitus, troubled; see solicitous.

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  1. from Middle English soliciten, solycyten, from Old French soliciter, French solliciter = Provencal sollicitar = Spanish Portuguese solicitar = Italian sollecitare, sollicitare, from Latin sollicitare, less correctly solicitare, agitate, arouse, solicit, from sollicitus, less correctly solicitus, agitated, anxious, punctilious, literally ‘thoroughly moved,’ from Old Latin sollus, whole, entire (see sole solemn), + Latin citus, aroused, past participle of ciere, shake, excite, cite: see cite Cf. solicitous.
  2. from solicit, v.
 

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