Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which supplicates; a suppliant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who supplicates; a supplicant.
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- noun someone who
supplicates
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Examples
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But this supplicator maun be his son — Randal has been long gone where king and lord must go,
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Joss was the supplicator, no matter how hard she found it to visualise him in that role.
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Priest Eiko was in charge of Lady Saisho's supplicator of the spirit [i.e. Queen's substitute].
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He had lately learned through his interpreter that the burden of most of the individual prayers was that the supplicator might "catch plenty skins" and be more successful in hunting than his fellows; and though he had done his best to impress upon them the superior importance of making request for spiritual benefit, he was afraid they had made no change.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
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It was also deemed necessary that the supplicator for divine grace should approach the priests with an
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They do not attempt to continue the interaction, and I don’t want to be a supplicator, so that’s pretty much that.
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They do not attempt to continue the interaction, and I don’t want to be a supplicator, so that’s pretty much that.
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In all ages, in all creeds, a strange and mystic impression has existed of the efficacy of self-sacrifice in working the redemption even of a whole people: this belief, so strong in the old orient and classic religions, was yet more confirmed by Christianity -- a creed founded upon the grandest of historic sacrifices; and the lofty doctrine of which, rightly understood, perpetuates in the heart of every believer the duty of self-immolation, as well as faith in the power of prayer, no matter how great the object, how mean the supplicator.
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In all ages, in all creeds, a strange and mystic impression has existed of the efficacy of self-sacrifice in working the redemption even of a whole people: this belief, so strong in the old orient and classic religions, was yet more confirmed by Christianity -- a creed founded upon the grandest of historic sacrifices; and the lofty doctrine of which, rightly understood, perpetuates in the heart of every believer the duty of self-immolation, as well as faith in the power of prayer, no matter how great the object, how mean the supplicator.
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'supplicator,' for {iota epsilon rho epsilon upsilon sigma}, 'priest.'
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