| 单词 | letter supplicatory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletter supplicatory 1. Expressing supplication; making or containing an earnest plea, esp. to a higher power or authority. Frequently, esp. in early use, in supplicatory letter (also †letter supplicatory) (now chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requesting or petitioning askingOE petitor1453 supplicatoryc1475 suppliant1550 entreating1566 placitatory1569 petitory1576 supplicant1577 suing1581 pleading1594 entreatful1596 conjuring1597 entreative1598 supplicative1601 petitionary1604 precatory1610 supplicating1612 petitioning1615 postulatorya1631 eucticala1638 obsecratory1645 placitory1651 imploring1655 precative1662 beseeching1704 obsecrationary1829 imploratory1832 suppliant-like1837 solicitive1865 solicitant1886 c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 873 Wythowte deserte and menys supplicatorie Ȝe be compacient to my inexcusabyll reprowe. 1550 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 92 Heraldis with lettres supplicatiouris. c1579 J. Stubbes Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 203 To offer this supplicatorye submission and peticion into your Majesties handes. 1583 W. Travers (title) An answere to a svpplicatorie epistle of G. T. for the pretended Catholiqves. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles xxv. 283 The Pardon that we give in the Name of God, is only declaratory of his Pardon, or supplicatory in a prayer to him for Pardon. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 205 They framed a supplicatory letter. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 289 I..laid my Hand upon her Ladyship's, in a supplicatory Manner. 1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 553 A supplicatory hymn for his recovery was sung in the church. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxii. 369 The Vermont council of safety despatched supplicatory letters for aid to the New Hampshire committee. 1911 H. S. Hulbert in F. A. Beecher Law of Wills in Michigan Introd. p. xviii Often enough the will takes the form of a supplicatory letter addressed to the king. 1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics ii. 57 Both groups are forced to the same accommodational tactics: an ingratiating or supplicatory manner invented to please. 1999 J. McCourt James Joyce i. 39 On receiving a supplicatory letter from him, asking her to meet him on 16 June, she agreed without hesitation. 2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 12 Jan. 41 The conducting of Colin Davis had a more self-denying, supplicatory quality. < as lemmas |
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