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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.
  2. v. To make a humble entreaty to; beseech.
  3. v. To make a humble, earnest petition; beg.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To beg for; seek or invoke by earnest prayer: as, to supplicate a blessing.
  2. To address or appeal to in prayer: as, to supplicate the throne of grace.
  3. Synonyms Request, Beg, etc. See ask, and list under solicit.
  4. To entreat humbly; beseech; implore; petition.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To humble oneself before another in making a request; to beg.
  2. v. To plead with one's deity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly.
  2. v. To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
  3. v. To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. ask humbly (for something)
  2. v. ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
  3. v. make a humble, earnest petition

Etymologies

  1. From the participle stem of Latin supplicāre, from sub- + plicāre ‘to bend’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English supplicaten, from Latin supplicāre, supplicāt-, from supplex, supplic-, suppliant; see supple. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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