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▪ I. † solicitate, a. Obs.
Also 5–6 sollicitate, 6 Sc. solicitat.
[ad. L. sōl-, sollicitātus, pa. pple. of sollicitāre solicit v.]
Solicitous, anxious, careful; characterized by care or solicitude.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 403 The kynge of Macedony, sollicitate and besy for the succession of þat realme. 1548Wishart Conf. Faith in Misc. Wodr. Soc. (1844) 22 A solicitat and thoughtfull charge of the poore. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 133 Nature was not sollicitate to brynge furthe suche greate fluds.
Hence † solicitateness. Obs.—1
1560Whitehorne Arte Warre 28 b, With greater industrie, & more sollicitatenesse.
▪ II. † solicitate, v. Obs.
Also 6–7 solicitat, sollicitate.
[f. ppl. stem of L. sōl-, sollicitāre.]
1. trans. To manage or conduct.
1547Bp. Hooper Declar. Christ v. D iij, To solicitat and do all there affars as a faythfull Embassadour. 1560Whitehorne Arte Warre 102 It is conuenient for thee, to sollicitate this worke in soche wise, that..the Diche maie be digged at least, fower or five yardes in depth.
2. To excite, stir up, or stimulate.
1568C. W[atson] Polybius 50 b, He sent out his most actiue souldiers to solicitate and prouoke his aduersaries that they might come to the hands of the rest. Ibid. 87 He also solicitated the Numidians & Libians to rebellion. 1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune i. xxxviii, The tast of the wyne dooth not so much solicitate the appetite. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 54 She commits so many faults with delight, stays not for being solicitated by the senses.
3. To request, entreat, beseech.
1563Foxe A. & M. 1171/1 The Byshop..dyd vrge & solicitate [him], according to his maner of wordes to recant. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 430 They solicitat her..to restore them to their health. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 176 Having often sollicitated the King..to pay for the Navy.
4. intr. To take action, make application.
1572in Turner Sel. Rec. Oxford 347 The Towne Clarke shall go to London to solicitat towching the brewer charter. |