supplicatev.
/ˈsʌplᵻkeɪt/, U.S. /ˈsəpləˌkeɪt/ 1.
a. intransitive. To ask or beg for something humbly and earnestly; esp. to present a humble request to a person in power or authority. Frequently with for expressing the plea; also with to or unto specifying the person addressed.
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the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > to, of, or upon someone
clepec825
cryc1290
to pray (one) of a boon1393
to call on ——a1400
to seek on (also upon)a1400
to call upon ——c1405
sue1405
supplicate1417
peala1425
labour1442
to make suit1447–8
supply1489
suit1526
appeal1540
apply1554
incalla1572
invocate1582
beg1600
palaver1859
1417 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 55 Wee..have supplicated unto him..to attend heare.
?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 190 Their false manner of seeking yt is manifest, in that they seeke to bring Christ in by the arme of flesh, by suting & supplicating to his vassals and seruantes.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 163 A man cannot sometimes brooke to Supplicate or Beg.
1654 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 556 I supplicate to non for there good word.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 374 Supplicating for a Victorie against the Turks.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. 28 They need not intreat, pray, beg, supplicate.
1771 tr. J. M. Horstius Paradise of Soul (ed. 2) App. 7 O holy Mary..supplicate for the devout Female Sex.
1805 W. Wordsworth Ode to Duty v I supplicate for thy control.
1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 19 I have thought of you often..and have supplicated for you in my prayers.
1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop iii. iv. 115 The Ácoma people told afterwards that he did not supplicate or struggle.
2006 N. J. Nusha On Edge 57 She only supplicated to her God for her rescue from the Kachakbar (human smuggler).
b. intransitive. Oxford University. To present a formal request for a degree or for incorporation (cf. incorporate v. 3b).
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (intransitive)] > present or petition for degree
supplicate1691
sustain1756
1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 638 Thom. Beaumont..did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in Divinity.
1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 639 John Newland..supplicated for a Degree in Divinity.
1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 642 James Denton..sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridg, did..supplicate to be incorporated.
1761 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. III. 41 In 1573 he returned to Oxford, where he supplicated again for the degree.
1830 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 16 In the sole instance of supplicating for Graces..every Member of the House is invested..with a suspending negative upon each Grace for three times.
1891 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 76 No Graduate in any Faculty can supplicate for incorporation without..having obtained express permission from the Hebdomadal Council.
1948 K. Amis Let. 2 Mar. (2000) 162 I had supplicated for and been permitted to take the Degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts on the Saturday, and my parents and my father-in-law were in Oxford for the occasion.
2000 Statutes, Decrees, & Regul. Univ. Oxf. ii. i. 207 Before supplicating in Congregation for incorporation, whether as a graduate or an undergraduate, every person who desires to be incorporated must be matriculated as a member of this University.
2000 Statutes, Decrees, & Regul. Univ. Oxf. ii. i. 188 No person may supplicate more than once for the same degree.
2. transitive. To address an earnest or humble plea to (a person in a position of power or authority); to ask, beg, entreat; (Oxford University) to make a supplication to (Congregation) for a degree or incorporation (cf. sense 1b) (now rare). Frequently with infinitive or for expressing the plea.
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the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > petition
procurea1387
motion1476
solicit1530
supplication1593
supplicate1601
petition1607
petitionate1624
move1633
address1698
bill1722
society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (transitive)] > present or petition for degree
supplicate1601
present1661
sustain1838
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 93 Whether (the purpose of Christ standing so as wee say) it be not an intolerable presumption, or filthie distrust at the least, for any whomsoeuer, to supplicate Christ for that extraordinarie fauour afresh.
1642 Decl. Lords & Comm. Gen. Assemb. Ch. Scot. 11 The Assembly has humbly supplicate the Kings Majesty.
1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 643 Richard Ede,..Scholar in Musick, did supplicate the ven. Congregation to be admitted Bachelaur of that Faculty.
1696 in J. Aubrey Miscellanies 165 They have supplicated the Presbyterie, who judicially appointed publick Prayers to be made.
1754 A. P. Goddard tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Italy V. ix. 146 The Cardinals also supplicated him, with the greatest Earnestness, not to go.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. iv. 57 To supplicate Clement VI. to remove the Holy See from Avignon to Rome.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 9 Shall I brook to be supplicated?
1910 H. James Let. 2 Feb. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) iii. 144 I supplicate you, don't have these lurid fears & soothe your angelic spirit to rest.
1969 P. W. Thomas Sir John Berkenhead i. 16 On 14 January 1637, he supplicated Congregation for admission to his B.A. degree.
a1972 J. K. Baxter Labyrinth (1974) 250 I supplicate Dark heaven for the peace of that woman they Lifted out of the breakers yesterday.
2000 E. S. Belfiore Murder among Friends i. 16 The Argive women supplicate Theseus on the basis of kinship, since they, like him, belong to the race of Pelasgos.
3. transitive. To request (something) humbly or earnestly, esp. from someone in a position of power or authority; to solicit, beg for. Frequently with clause as object.
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the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > a thing of a person
askOE
beseech?a1400
supplicate1625
1625 T. Jackson Christs Answer 71 For the Lord had said vnto Ioshuah, (when the Gibeonites supplicated his assistance against the Kings of the Amorites that dwelt in the mountaines) Feare them not.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 34 Giacomo Croato..was..assailed by an armed Bark of Pirates..and supplicate's that som order might bee taken therein.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 244 in Justice Vindicated The Church..did supplicate protection from the temporall powers.
1779 Mirror No. 35. ⁋3 The blessings which a fond father should supplicate from Heaven for his offspring.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. ix. 53 I supplicated to know what was designed me.
1838 J. Grant Sketches London 242 Supplicating a crust of bread for her famishing children.
1854 M. Cummins Lamplighter xxiii To supplicate Heaven's blessing upon them.
1862 R. Vaughan Eng. Nonconformity 44 He urged..that the rubric should not supplicate that the bread and wine might become the body and blood of Christ to the recipient.
a1914 ‘M. Field’ Ras Byzance in Deirdre (1918) 157 By a wisdom ripened Through nigh four thousand years, I supplicate That you release this young man from his death.
1954 M. Lowry Let. 10 May (1967) 367 Someone supplicated our own aid in a manner almost as urgent as we had..the air force officer.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Dec. 29/3 The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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