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‖ supplicat|ˈsʌplɪkæt|
Also 7–9 -ate.
[L., = he supplicates, 3rd pers. sing. pres. ind. of supplicāre to supplicate. Formerly often assimilated in form to abstract nouns in -ate1:—L. -ātus (but cf. med.L. supplicātus).
In university use arising from its occurrence as the first word in the formula used by the proctor in presenting the petition. In quots. 1660 and 18592, perh. an independent formation in -ate1.]
A supplication, petition; spec. (now only) in English universities, a formal petition for a degree or for incorporation (cf. supplicant b, supplicate v. 3, supplication e).
1660Z. Crofton Fastening of St. Peter's Fetters 153 The servants query..was not a supplicate for an Authoritative Release; but a scrutiny into the Extent of the Oath. 1665J. Buck in Peacock Stat. Cambr. (1841) App. B. p. xc, There are no supplicats put up for King's College Fellows. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. Fasti 637 This year was a Supplicate made in the venerable Congregation of Regents for one Tho. Dalby to be admitted to a Degree in Decrees. Ibid. 641 Supplicat. Ibid. 662 This year.. there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea, to be incorporated here. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 23 This Supplicat being granted, he was..crown'd..with a Wreath of Lawrel; that is, doctorated in the Arts of Grammar and Rhetorick. 1859Cambr. Univ. Cal. 2 No degree is ever conferred without a Grace for that purpose. The Grace in this instance is termed a Supplicat. 1859Masson Milton I. vii. 678 The king has hitherto shown his displeasure by leaving the supplicates substantially unanswered. 1906Wells Oxf. Degree Ceremony 8 One of the Proctors reads out the supplicat. |