Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.
- v. To make a humble entreaty to; beseech.
- v. To make a humble, earnest petition; beg.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To beg for; seek or invoke by earnest prayer: as, to supplicate a blessing.
- To address or appeal to in prayer: as, to supplicate the throne of grace.
- Synonyms Request, Beg, etc. See ask, and list under solicit.
- To entreat humbly; beseech; implore; petition.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly.
- v. To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
- v. To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
WordNet 3.0
- v. ask humbly (for something)
- v. ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
- v. make a humble, earnest petition
Etymologies
- From the participle stem of Latin supplicāre, from sub- + plicāre ‘to bend’. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English supplicaten, from Latin supplicāre, supplicāt-, from supplex, supplic-, suppliant; see supple. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_Erynnis_, from the indignation and perturbations they raise in the mind; _Eumenĭdes_, from their placability to such as supplicate them, as in the instance of Orestes, and Argos, upon his following the advice of”
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
“May I "supplicate" Rodriguez to purchase a copy of William Strunk and E.B. White's”
“Rabbi Akibah took one bite of the divine bounty, and proposed that God set up a restaurant where families might convene and supplicate praise onto his Name while enjoying shrimp-avocado tacos and flame-broiled hanger steak fresh off the grill.”
The Huffington Post: Doug Lieblich: Holy Smokes: A Visit to God's Rotisserie Chicken Restaurant
“Another Republican has had to supplicate to Rush Limbaugh.”
“On top of that, you have to supplicate in front of a officer whose salary is paid out of the money that you pay as a tax payer.”
“Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?”
“Islam teaches that the individual who commits suicide has so offended his or her Creator that believers are not allowed to supplicate on behalf of his soul.”
“Our ingrained habit is to smile, to appease, to placate, to supplicate and to accept the behavior of the powerful, especially when we stand next to them.”
“Suppose the state of Virginia had humbly to supplicate counties for tax revenue, Randolph asked, what would be the result of such applications for voluntary contributions?”
“And I am not the sort to supplicate myself to my work.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘supplicate’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
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abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, approbation, orator, peroration, Cicero, eloquence, elocution, rhetoric, premeditate, plead, Isocrates and 264 more...
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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appint, monarch, counterpart, muse, bestow, unwitting, aghast, admonish, wage, decree, cavalry, phalanx and 126 more...
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GREs
supplicate, insidious, hermeneutic, salubrious, perfidious, opprobrium, obviate, vitiate
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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