solicitorn.
/səˈlɪsɪtə/ a. One who urges, prompts, or instigates. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates
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stirrerc1384
enticerc1386
exciter1387
risera1398
solicitor1412
erterc1440
prompter1440
stirrer?1533
motionerc1535
author1546
onsetter1549
stinger1552
setter-on1560
incentor1570
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whetter1579
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hounder1597
egger on1598
inciter1598
instigator1598
urger1598
motive1600
fomenter1607
inflamer1609
fetcher in?1611
provokera1616
putter-ona1616
monitor1616
spurrer1632
outputter1639
poddera1640
commoter1646
impulsor1653
shaker and mover1874
agent provocateur1888
impeller1889
sooler1935
spark plug1941
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 3797 And of þis Iourne chefe solicytour Was Hercules, þe worthi conquerour.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance iii. f. 4 Solicitours and furtherers of dishonest appetites.
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 254 One that was the chief incenser and solicitor of the first divorce.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xxxv. 533 No bad sollicitor by word of mouth to further & follow the cause.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vi. 144 Promoters or instruments of..wickedness; such as..solicitors in vice.
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates
prickleOE
pritchOE
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bellowsc1386
pricka1387
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pointing1533
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impulsivea1628
excitation1628
incendiary1628
dispositive1629
fomentationa1631
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stirrer1632
irritament1634
provocative1638
impetus1641
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engagement1642
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propellant1654
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urgency1664
impeller1686
fillip1699
shove1724
incitive1736
stimulative1747
bonus1787
stimulus1791
impellent1793
stimulant1794
propulsion1800
instigant1833
propulsive1834
motive power1836
evoker1845
motivity1857
afflatus1865
flip1881
urge1882
agent provocateur1888
will to power1896
a shot in the arm1922
motivator1929
driver1971
co-driver1993
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 265 Ioy and hope..were bestowed vpon him to bee spurres and sollicitours to induce him to seeke after God.
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. vi. 41 It hath been vsed from time to time, as an agent and a sollicitor to arme the people..against their lawfull Lordes.
a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) II. 201 We usually blame the Body to an high Degree, as..the Solicitor to every evil Act, all that defiles the Man.
1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 104 Extreme Hunger and Thirst which were our Sollicitors at this Time, will prompt one to the most desperate Undertakings.
a. One who conducts, negotiates, or transacts matters on behalf of another or others; a representative, agent, or deputy. Obsolete.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who acts for another
procuratorc1300
proctor1301
attorney1347
provisora1393
assignee1419
procuracya1425
solicitorc1425
factor1445
soliciter1464
doer1465
umbothman1482
agent1523
assign1526
procurera1533
practitioner1560
proxy1585
pragmatic1593
procureur1604
pragmatitioner1607
foreign agent1646
institor1657
agent general1659
proxy-man1696
interestera1701
maat1824
c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 912 Hooly heremytes, goddes solycitours, Monasteriall monkes [etc.].
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxxix. f. xxxix The whiche Paterne had ben Solicitour for ye Frenshe kyng in the foresayd Matier.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke viii. ii. 145 Pius the II…instituted the new College of Solicitors & Proctors by whose Counsaill and aduise all bulles and grauntes wer made.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 35 I come not therefore as his Solicitour but as his bare witnesse.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 203 The principall pillars of the Presbyterian party..applied themselves by their secret solicitors to James King of Scotland.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant lv. 216 Next to him is the Father Sollicitor, who ought to be a Spaniard born.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) I. v. 388 His principal Agents and Sollicitors at Rome were his Brother Quintus [etc.].
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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > other officers of royal or great household
yeoman of the crown1450
sea-fisher1455
solicitor1460
stationary1462
Clerk of the Signet1489
prothonotary1502
Clerk of the Check1541
yeoman of the revels1552
yeoman of the tents1552
Queen's Remembrancer1647
labourer in trust1746
Master of the Buckhounds1753
cock-crower1785
ministerial1818
1460–1 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1460 388/1 The Sollicitours for the Quene mad leve of C li.
1503 Rolls of Parl. VI. 536 Thomas Lucas, the Kyngs Solisitor.
1555 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 235 Mr...Cordall, our soveraign Ladie the Quenes Sollicitor.
1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron v. ii Where the King's chief Solicitor hath said There was in France no man that ever liv'd Whose parts were worth my imitation.
3.
a. One properly qualified and formally admitted to practise as a law-agent in any court; formerly, one practising in a court of equity, as distinguished from an attorney.The rise of solicitors as a class of legal practitioners, and the gradual recognition and definition of their status, are illustrated by the first group of quotations. For the Scottish usage see Bell Dict. Law Scotl. s.v.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > legal representative or agent > solicitor
soliciter1464
solicitor1584
advocate1721
mouthpiece1857
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(b)1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers B ij They finde out..some olde soaking vndermining Solicitour.1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 76 Let Diligent Attorneyes so faithfully Solicite, let Painefull Solicitours so honestly Agitate [etc.].1679 Established Test 27 I have heard a..famous Lawyer say, he thought he was one of the ablest Solicitors in England.1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 306 Had she employ'd a petty Fogging hedge Soliciter,..I should have brought it to but little.1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher III. 58 Sir Appulby..found it convenient to suppose I was willing to await his reference to his solicitor.1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 16 The solicitors' wives, and the wine merchant's wife, headed another grade.1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? ii. xii I will direct my solicitor to take the right steps to do so.1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl ii. 25 He was..obviously wealthy, though 'twas a third-rate solicitor's.figurative.1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis More fit for one who had deserved to be Attorney Generall to Nature, then for me, the meanest Sollicitor in her Court.attributive.1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Jan. 10/2 Solicitor and client costs will be enforced in all cases.1589 Sir T. Smith's Common-welth (rev. ed.) ii. i. 44 Solicitors are such, as being learned in the lawes, and informed of their masters cause, doe informe and instruct the Counsellors in the same.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 386 After that sollicitors were suffered in the middest of them all to be as it were the skumme gatherers of sutes.
1653 Consid. Dissolving Court of Chancery iv. 18 Sollicitors (a race of people was not allowed or heard of in the Law about 100 years agoe).
1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 6 I know not but he may be criminal that brought you those Papers: for we allow no Sollicitors in cases of Treason.
1729 Act 2 Geo. II c. 23 §3 (An Act for the better Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors). No Person..shall be permitted to act as a Solicitor..unless such Person..be admitted and inrolled..in such of the said Courts of Equity, where he shall act as Solicitor.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 26 To practice in the court of chancery it is also necessary to be admitted a solicitor therein.
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 66/1 A solicitor in any court of equity at Westminster may be sworn, admitted, and enrolled an attorney of his Majesty's courts of law.
1843 Act 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73 §21 Be it enacted, That..there shall be a Registrar of Attornies and Solicitors.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria lxvi. §87 From and after the commencement of this Act all persons admitted as solicitors, attorneys, or proctors of or by law empowered to practise in any Court, the jurisdiction of which is hereby transferred to the High Court of Justice or the Court of Appeal, shall be called Solicitors of the Supreme Court.
b. Solicitor-General n. a law-officer (in England ranking next to the Attorney-General, in Scotland to the Lord-Advocate), who takes the part of the state or crown in suits affecting the public interest.In the earliest example perhaps with less specific meaning (cf. 2b above).
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers
the King's Attorney1414
attorneya1513
attorney-general1533
Solicitor-General1533
city attorney1664
state's attorney1779
AG1814
Official Solicitor1875
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 16 §2 The Kinges generall attorney, and generall Solicitour, which for the time is.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 36 He was Recorder of London, Sollicitor General, and King's Attorney before he was forty years of age.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) 576 The Queen's Serjeants at Law…Sollicitor-General, Robert Eyre, Esq.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 116/1 Upon this the sollicitor general was heard in reply.
1812 Examiner 14 Dec. 786/1 At which the Solicitor General expressed such anticipating alarm.
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 321 The solicitor-general, M. Martin du Nord, began to prepare an indictment.
1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xxii. 430 [He] leased his powers of eloquence to the government..for the office of solicitor-general.
c. Official Solicitor n. (see quot. 1977).
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers
the King's Attorney1414
attorneya1513
attorney-general1533
Solicitor-General1533
city attorney1664
state's attorney1779
AG1814
Official Solicitor1875
1875 Minutes of Evidence taken by Commissioners appointed to inquire into Administrative Departments of Courts of Justice 344/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 1245) XXX. 163 I hold the office of official solicitor to the Court of Chancery.
1896 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 1 368 We have an officer of this Court who is called the Official Solicitor.
1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 366/1 The husband, by the Official Solicitor as his guardian ad litem, denied the allegation.
1977 J. Burke Jowitt's Dict. Eng. Law (ed. 2) II. 1281/2 The Official Solicitor of the Court of Chancery was an officer whose functions consisted of protecting the Suitors Fund... He is now known as the Official Solicitor of the Supreme Court... He acts for persons suffering under a disability; he acts generally as solicitor in cases in which the Chancery Division requires his services as solicitor; he visits persons in custody for contempt.
4. in extended use.1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 110 Besides the Devil, he shall have sollicitors enough.
a. One who entreats, requests, or petitions; one who solicits or begs favours; a pleader, intercessor, advocate.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals
beseecher1382
petitioner1414
suitor1414
orator1417
suppliantc1422
supplicant1475
soliciter1536
solicitor1551
oratricle1574
pleader1584
supplicationer1585
beggar1589
incaller?1591
supplicator1593
petitor1596
beadsman1600
impetrator1605
implorer1611
imploratora1616
replicant1622
invokera1649
prostrate1648
deprecator1656
appellant1704
memorialist1706
applicationer1710
postulant1733
invocant1751
solicitant1821
petitionist1822
memorializer1859
1551 R. Robinson in tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. sig. ✠iiiiv An euell tale well tolde nedeth none other sollicitour.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. xiv. 165 That hee might bee a faithful Solicitor to his Almighty Father for aid and succour unto all that are beset with them.
1673 True Notion Worship of God 32 It demonstrates the greatest for God in those that are earnest Solicitours at his Throne.
1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 7. 58 His Sister was..so good a Sollicitor, that by her Means he was admitted to read Prayers in the Family.
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) II. 417 The Lacedemonians..put up their petitions very early in the morning, in order,.. by being the first solicitors, to pre-engage the gods in their favour.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) x. 279 The passion for salaries and Government employment..makes a whole people a mere crowd of servile solicitors for place.
1883 Ld. Rosebery Speech at Edinb. 21 July The brazen solicitor who will not take No for an answer.
b. With possessive pronoun, etc., denoting the person on whose behalf the solicitation is made.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 27 Therefore be merry Cassio, For thy soiliciter shall rather die, Then giue thee cause: away. View more context for this quotation
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 86 When Ctesiphons wicked sollicitors saw their labour lost with Heraclee, they then addressed themselves to the mother.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. (1827) 218 Whenever the young lords had any favour to ask of the King, Cyrus was their solicitor.
c. transferred. Of things.
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1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 61 Lett this ilfavorid letter suffize for a dutifull solicitor and remembrer in that behaulfe.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 48 The beautie and fairenesse of his eyes..were the principall, and chiefe Solicitors of her affections towards him.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. v. 56 Beauty, and Harmony.., being prevailing solicitors for the obteining love and affection.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > one who or that which
tollerc1440
allurer1556
ticer?c1562
invitera1586
siren1592
solicitor1593
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invitator1603
coy1629
attractor1646
coy-duck1654
lightning rod1859
Pied Piper1869
witcher1928
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vii. 60 Appetite is the wills sollicitor, and the will is appetites controller.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 22 This voyage, where~unto his owne courage was a sufficient sollicitor.
1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 18 He that will be drawn to the Tavern or Alehouse by every idle solicitor..is a Drunkard in Solomon's esteem.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > recruiting officer
arrayer1617
pressmaster1617
lister1678
solicitor1698
recruiting officer1706
recruiting sergeant1706
recruiter1760
enlister1865
1698–9 in R. Steele Tudor & Stuart Procl. (1910) I. 508/2 1st Regiment of Foot Guards:..2 quartermasters, a solicitor, a drum-major [etc.].
7. U.S. One who solicits business orders, advertising, etc.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > business of advertising > [noun] > one who solicits advertising
solicitor1897
1897 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 463/2 A small army of solicitors is despatched to a neighborhood to go from house to house telling people about the features of the paper.
1903 E. L. Shuman Pract. Journalism 200 Have as many good solicitors out as necessary and make your rates low enough to invite this form of advertising.
1916 John Bull 13 May 10/2 He called himself a grocer's solicitor, meaning a canvasser for orders.
1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 161/2 Life insurance salesmen as a class are..about the least ambitious..salesmen in the entire round of commercial solicitors.
1926 Publishers' Weekly 15 May 1589 Why can't he leave it to the judgment of the printers? Or to the advertising solicitor?
1952 S. Eisenberg How to earn Income selling Products & Services by Phone i. 4/2 If you can handle the English language..you can be a telephone solicitor.
1976 D. Barnes Yesterday is Dead (1977) ii. 207 ‘No Solicitors’, a sign on the glass double doors announced.
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soliciˈtorial adj.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [adjective] > of or relating to solicitor
solicitorial1940
1940 G. Frankau Self-portrait xix. 105 Yet pressed I was, with a solicitorial document addressed to the office, demanding ‘£120 plus 6s. 8d. being the cost of this letter’ under threat of an immediate writ.
1988 Times 4 July 25/1 An undertaking, given in the context of an underlying transaction of a solicitorial nature, to provide security for a loan could be within the ordinary course of a solicitor's business.
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