单词 | mendicate |
释义 | † mendicatev. 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). < v.1618 |
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