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单词 mendicate
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mendicatev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mendīcāt-, mendīcāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin mendīcāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix3) of mendīcāre to beg (see mendicant n. and adj.). Compare Italian mendicare (transitive, 12th cent.; intransitive a1294), Spanish mendigar (1220–50), Portuguese mendigar (13th cent.). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (me·ndikeit) /ˈmɛndɪkeɪt/.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To beg for, ask for like a beggar; to obtain (as if) by begging. Also: to bring (a person) into a specified condition by begging. Cf. emendicate v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)]
yearnOE
bid971
seek971
askOE
beseechc1175
banc1275
yerec1275
cravec1300
desirec1330
impetrec1374
praya1382
nurnc1400
pleadc1400
require1400
fraynec1430
proke1440
requisitea1475
wishc1515
supply1546
request1549
implore?c1550
to speak for ——1560
entreat1565
impetratec1565
obtest?1577
solicit1595
invoke1617
mendicate1618
petition1621
imprecate1636
conjurea1704
speer1724
canvass1768
kick1792
I will thank you to do so-and-so1813
quest1897
to hit a person up for1917
1618 P. Holderus in tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuels Apol. sig. D I..maruaile, why you should so carefully search, and as it were mendicate [L. emendicare] these things.
1768 W. Livingston Let. Bishop Llandaff 19 People..may be mendicated or sermonized out of their money.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1939) 260 I have seen..papers distributed in the boxes to mendicate a round of applause.
1854 in Southern Q. Rev. (1856) Nov. 30 They went about..transporting witnesses, mendicating legal decisions, to reject them when obtained.
1869 Littell's Living Age 18 Dec. 758/2 Sir William could not stoop to ‘mendicate’ the votes of the patrons of college preferment.
2. intransitive. To beg. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]
thigc1300
begc1384
crave1393
to go a-begged1393
prowl1530
to go (or have been) a begging1535
maund?1536
to bear the wallet1546
cant1567
prog1579
to turn to bag and wallet1582
skelder1602
maunder1611
strike1618
emendicate1623
mendicate1623
to go a-gooding1646
mump1685
shool1736
cadge1819
to stand pad1841
stag1860
bum1870
schnorr1875
panhandle1894
pling1915
stem1924
nickel-and-dime1942
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Mendicate, to beg.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Mendicate. To beg; to ask alms.
3. intransitive. To move as a beggar.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1705 E. Ward Honesty in Distress iii. 19 She mendicates this way, I fear she'll stop, To crave a dram of Comfort at my Shop.

Derivatives

mendicated adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requested
askedOE
entreated1567
inquired1598
petitioned1609
craved1614
sued-for1615
mendicateda1643
invited1658
implored1659
solicited1833
a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 142 To be beholden to this borrowed, yea mendicated and begged dignity.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 571 The..squalid establishments for mendicated instruction had become loathsome in his eyes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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