supplicationn.

Brit.

/ˌsʌplᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌsəpləˈkeɪʃən/

Forms: Middle English supplicacioun, Middle English supplicacon, Middle English supplicacyone, Middle English supplycacion, Middle English–1500s supplicacion, Middle English–1500s supplycacyon, Middle English–1600s suplication, Middle English– supplication, 1500s supplicacyon, 1600s suplecation; Scottish pre-1700 suplication, pre-1700 suplicatioun, pre-1700 suplicatioune, pre-1700 supliecatioun, pre-1700 supplicacion, pre-1700 supplicacione, pre-1700 supplicacioun, pre-1700 supplicacioune, pre-1700 supplicatione, pre-1700 supplicatioun, pre-1700 supplicatioune, pre-1700 supplycatioun, pre-1700 1700s– supplication.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French supplication; Latin supplicātiōn-, supplicātiō.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman supplicacioun, supplicacione, Anglo-Norman and Middle French supplicacion, supplication, Middle French suplicacion, suplication (French supplication ) action of addressing a solemn request to God or a god, prayer (c1175 in Old French), earnest request or entreaty, especially one made deferentially to a person in a position of power or authority (c1175), action of supplicating (c1334 or earlier, frequently in faire supplication ), formal (usually written) petition made to a king, official, court, or other authority (1321 or earlier), (in ancient Rome) public religious ceremony of thanksgiving (a1359), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin supplicātiōn-, supplicātiō action of offering propitiation to a deity, in post-classical Latin also humble submission (4th cent.), prayer to God (5th cent.), written petition or plea to king or emperor (6th cent.) < supplicāt- , past participial stem of supplicāre supplicate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Franco-Occitan supplication (c1180), Old Occitan supplicacion (13th cent.), Spanish suplicación (mid 13th cent.; also †supplicación), Portuguese supplicação (13th cent. as †suplicaçõ), Italian supplicazione (1342 as †supplicatione).In to make supplication (see senses 3, 2a) after Middle French faire supplication (mid 13th cent. in Old French with reference to prayer, 1321 or earlier with reference to a petition to a person in a position of power or authority).

1. A humble plea; an earnest request or entreaty, esp. one made deferentially to a person in a position of power or authority.In quot. a1393 perhaps a use of sense 4a in a figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > beseeching or importuning

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 2301 Whanne I this Supplicacioun..Hadde after min entente write Unto Cupide and to Venus.

c1450 ( G. Chaucer Complaint to Purse (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 26 Ye that mowen alle myn harme amende Haue mynde vpon my supplicacion.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 227 His moder and his wife..made a supplicacion to hym for the savegarde of the cite.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 186 They assaulted me with more serious supplications, not holding me..excusable.

1669 J. Owen Pract. Expos. 130th Psalm (new ed.) 163 It is not a supplication to them for help, that is intended, but an enquiry after the Experience in the case in hand.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xviii. 94 Peace was at length granted to their humble supplications.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. viii. 301 In a moment the noise and bravado..was hushed into a supplication for forgiveness.

1919 Railroad Telegrapher June 770/1 Marwin raised his eyes suddenly to hers, and there was a supplication in them.

1992 J. Critchley Floating Voter (BNC) 138 John Gummer was announced, but Margaret Thatcher listened with scant patience to his supplications.

a. The action of addressing a solemn request to God (or a god); prayer. Frequently in in supplication, to make supplication.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory

litany?c1225

supplication?c1400

?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. iii. l. 4594 Þis is oonly þe manere, þat is to seyen hope and prayeres, for whiche it semeþ þat [men] mowen speken wiþ god, and by resoun of supplicacioun ben conioigned to þilk clernesse.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts i. 14 These all continued with one acorde in prayer and supplicacion.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bi The sayd Moyses..made supplicacion to god.

1561 H. Becher tr. Vocation & Callyng all Nations i. iv. sig. Dviii The whiche lawe of supplication and praier, the deuocion of all priestes, and of all faythfull men doth..agreably holde.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. ii. 263 Making supplication..unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices.

1682 J. Owen Disc. Work Holy Spirit vii. 148 This Utterance is a Gift of the Holy Ghost, so also is Prayer as to the manner of the performance of it by words in Supplication.

1750 Universal Mag. Oct. 182/2 Great God of mercy! while I bend In supplication to thy throne, Incline thine ear.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 261 Making supplication to St. John, in a fragment of simple melody, or Canto fermo.

1832 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 21 Feb. He stood in the rear end of his frail bark, his hands clasped in supplication.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 697 At last it seemed that heaven had been stormed by the violence of supplication: the truth came out, and many lies with it.

1892 G. M. Fenn New Mistress (new ed.) xiii. 82 When he read prayers morning and evening it seemed to him that he was making supplication for that face alone.

1915 J. M. Campbell Place of Prayer in Christian Relig. v. i. 246 With every form and variety of prayer and supplication.

1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage v. 189/1 The Sioux and other Plains peoples turned in supplication to the Great Spirit.

2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 188 A hardening and pressing he now knew as sexual, a feeling that twenty years distant, kneeling in supplication, still stirred him physically.

b. A prayer; spec. (in a litany) a request for a special blessing. Frequently (in plural) coupled with prayers.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > a prayer

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c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 163 (MED) The vje remedie is meke preiers or supplicaciouns to haue forȝeuenes.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xiii. sig. D.iij Bifore the aulters thei offred sacrifices with grete supplycacyons and prayers.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. ii. 1 That..prayeers, supplicacions, peticions, and gevynge of thankes be had for all men.

1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Ciiii With one accorde, to make our commune supplications vnto the.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxxii Assist vs mercifully, O Lord, in these our supplicacions & praiers.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §6. 154 I cannot see one say his Prayers, but in stead of imitating him, I fall into a supplication for him.

1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (new ed.) 100 These Collects after the Letany, though the matter of them hath been prayed for before particularly in the Supplications foregoing [etc.].

1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxv. 278 In devout supplications to Jesus.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 455 We conclude, that this Kyrie Eleeson, or Domine Miserere, in Arrianus, was a Pagan Litany or Supplication to the Supreme God.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Having made certain Supplications to the Gods to direct them.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xxvi. 225 Each among the train To his own Idol lifts his supplications vain.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. i. 3 The churches resounded with supplications and groans.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 696/1 The common features which are now regarded as essential to a litany, in as far as they consisted of (1) invocations, (2) deprecations, (3) intercessions, (4) supplications.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xi. 38 Mr Watson read prayers in an impressive manner, and the supplications thundered out in his loud voice as though they were threats personally addressed to each boy.

1954 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 21 Nov. 36/7 The invocations and supplications will be sung by the 50 chancel choir boys and about 35 sixth graders.

2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 July 54/4 Encounters with najes (polluted) individuals had ‘nullified’ his prayers and supplications to God and the Imams.

3. The action of supplicating; humble or earnest pleading or entreaty. Frequently in to make supplication.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty

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1417 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 58 Hee dayly made suplication to have peace.

?1449–50 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 204/2 Hit hath cawsid us alle to make supplicacion unto the Duke of Yorke, and his Counsail.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxxi. f. lxvii He..ordeyned such meanes as byllys of supplicacion and other, that the causes & matiers of poore men myght come to his knowlege.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 20^v They made humble supplication to the Admirall.

1611 W. Adams Let. 23 Oct. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 71 Soe agein I made supplication and boldly spake myself w'th him, at w'ch he gave me noe aunswer.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1459 I have attempted..the Lords..With supplication prone and Fathers tears To accept of ransom for my Son.

1758 Scots Mag. Mar. 135/1 I might as well have petitioned tygers, or made supplication to the wind.

1786 T. Holcroft tr. I. Montolieu Caroline of Lichtfield (ed. 2) I. 274 Permit me to ask you, in your turn, what you were doing there; and what saying, to Louisa, in an attitude of such supplication?

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 475 Pathetic earnestness of supplication.

1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 24 Mar. 178/1 On making supplication to them by joining his hands, they retreated a short distance, and fired at him.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away & Other Stories 51 He looked a long time down at the earth, then glanced up at her with a touch of supplication in his uneasy eyes.

1991 N. Rush Mating vii. 452 He had to stop sending out waves of fear and supplication.

2010 News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) (Nexis) 24 Feb. a1 Guests might include..a party of El Gaucho patrons who have made supplication to enter.

a. A formal, usually written, petition made to a king, official, court, etc. Now chiefly Law.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > one who requests or petitions > letter or document

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c1419 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xvi A supplication of grevous compleynt put unto us by Sir Rogier Wodehill.

1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §13. m. 5 Besechying mekely unto your hie and noble grace, þat þis my supplication..may be in þis your parlement entred, and of record enacte.

a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 143 Þat all supplicacions wich shalbe made to þe kynge..be sende to þe..counsell.

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H2 Whats heere? the humble supplication Of Don Bazulto for his murdred sonne.

c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 90 Schir patrick gray..passit haistelie with the said wreitting and supplicatioun of the kingis to the erle of douglas.

1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. B1 Great wagers were layd..that when the Supplication was sent, it would not be receyued; or if receyued, it would not be read ouer.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) Suppl. 491 The supplicants gave in a Supplication to his Majestie's Commissioners for a free Generall Assemblie and Parliaments.

?1750 Hist. Lawrence Lazy vii. 22 A numerous train of shoemakers, glovers, and taylors apprentices..making most earnest and humble supplication to the court in behalf of Lawrence.

1787 Daily Universal Reg. 18 Sept. 2/4 The Deputation from the Court of Aids presented, on Sunday evening last, a reiterative supplication to the King.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 27 A paper, termed, a Remonstrance and Supplication.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 71 To have the Supplication put into his Majesty's own hands.

1876 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 1 11 In 1390..a supplication was presented to the King in Parliament by Thomas, Lord Erskine, stating that if Isabella should die without issue, his wife..would be entitled to one half of the Earldom.

1908 G. Cormack Egypt in Asia xiii. 193 Next day came from Kadesh a herald bearing a written supplication, which the poet professes to reproduce.

1991 Internat. Jrnl. Law & Family 5 324 The trial court denied the father's supplication on the ground that the proper vehicle for such a request was an appeal rather than a bill of exceptions.

b. Oxford University. A formal request for a degree or for incorporation (cf. incorporate v. 3b). Cf. supplicat n., supplicate v. 1b. In later use also South Asian.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > presenting or petitioning for degree

supplicat1665

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1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 640 This year was a Supplication made in the ven. Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere..to be graduated in Divinity.

1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. i. 139 According to antient Custom, Graces or Supplications for Degrees are proposed and granted in the Congregation of Regent Masters.

1810 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 3 In the Congregation degrees are conferred, graces or supplications for them having been there previously proposed and passed.

1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 508 This abstention on the part of Wykehamists from the ‘supplications’, which had come to be regarded as essential to all other candidates.

1904 E. Boehmer Spanish Reformers III. 64 On April 20. the University received the supplication of Villiers, Doctor of Civil Law and Professor of Theology, to incept in theology, without payment, as he, an exile for religion, could not afford it.

1966 V. K. R. V. Rao Educ. & Human Resource Devel. ii. 51 The time of graduation or supplication for the conferment of degree.

2010 T. A. Sowerby Renaissance & Reform in Tudor Eng. 19 While it was common for the university..to permit supplication for the degree after three years, Morison petitioned two terms earlier than this.

5. Roman History. A public religious ceremony of thanksgiving (typically to honour a victorious general) or intercession (in time of war, after unfavourable omens, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > thanksgiving > [noun]

supplication1600

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Te Deum1679

society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > intercessory

deprecation1556

supplication1600

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. 402 There was also a solemne supplication holden through the cittie: wherein the people adored and praied the gods to prosper and bring to an happie end, this warre.

1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. 161 In the ende of the second Commentarie, we reade of a supplication granted by the senate, for 15 daies.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 10 By reason that his affaires sped well..hee obtained in regard thereof solemne Supplications both oftner, and to hold more daies than ever any man did (before himselfe).

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) II. vii. 229 After the contemptible account which Cicero gives of Bibulus's conduct in Syria, it must appear strange to see him honored with a supplication, and aspiring even to a Triumph.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. (at cited word) On subduing the Sabines, in the year of the city 304, a supplication of one day only was ordained.

1854 E. Greswell Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ III. xiv. 162 A supplication or thanksgiving of five days' duration was decreed in consequence of these tidings.

1904 H. S. Williams Historians' Hist. World V. xxii. 520 On the motion of Cicero the senate decreed a supplication of fifteen days for these victories.

1997 Classical Philol. 92 294 In the spring of 250 Decius ordered a general supplication of the gods for the security of the emperor and his house.

2001 tr. R. Turcan Gods Anc. Rome 100 After the defeat of Antiochus..the Senate decreed a three day supplication.

Derivatives

† supplicationer n. Obsolete a person who makes a supplication; a suppliant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals

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1585 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 106 Against th'untruth of such libellers and supplicationers.

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat 365 The Protestationer, Demonstrationer, Supplicationer, Appellationer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	supplication
释义	supplicationn. Brit. /ˌsʌplᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsəpləˈkeɪʃən/ Forms: Middle English supplicacioun, Middle English supplicacon, Middle English supplicacyone, Middle English supplycacion, Middle English–1500s supplicacion, Middle English–1500s supplycacyon, Middle English–1600s suplication, Middle English– supplication, 1500s supplicacyon, 1600s suplecation; Scottish pre-1700 suplication, pre-1700 suplicatioun, pre-1700 suplicatioune, pre-1700 supliecatioun, pre-1700 supplicacion, pre-1700 supplicacione, pre-1700 supplicacioun, pre-1700 supplicacioune, pre-1700 supplicatione, pre-1700 supplicatioun, pre-1700 supplicatioune, pre-1700 supplycatioun, pre-1700 1700s– supplication. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French supplication; Latin supplicātiōn-, supplicātiō. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman supplicacioun, supplicacione, Anglo-Norman and Middle French supplicacion, supplication, Middle French suplicacion, suplication (French supplication ) action of addressing a solemn request to God or a god, prayer (c1175 in Old French), earnest request or entreaty, especially one made deferentially to a person in a position of power or authority (c1175), action of supplicating (c1334 or earlier, frequently in faire supplication ), formal (usually written) petition made to a king, official, court, or other authority (1321 or earlier), (in ancient Rome) public religious ceremony of thanksgiving (a1359), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin supplicātiōn-, supplicātiō action of offering propitiation to a deity, in post-classical Latin also humble submission (4th cent.), prayer to God (5th cent.), written petition or plea to king or emperor (6th cent.) < supplicāt- , past participial stem of supplicāre supplicate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Franco-Occitan supplication (c1180), Old Occitan supplicacion (13th cent.), Spanish suplicación (mid 13th cent.; also †supplicación), Portuguese supplicação (13th cent. as †suplicaçõ), Italian supplicazione (1342 as †supplicatione).In to make supplication (see senses 3, 2a) after Middle French faire supplication (mid 13th cent. in Old French with reference to prayer, 1321 or earlier with reference to a petition to a person in a position of power or authority). 1. A humble plea; an earnest request or entreaty, esp. one made deferentially to a person in a position of power or authority.In quot. a1393 perhaps a use of sense 4a in a figurative context. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > beseeching or importuning beseechinga1350 suit1372 beggingc1380 pursuita1393 supplicationa1393 cravingc1430 entreating1525 solicitation1533 entreatance1548 precation1548 suiting1560 soliciting1570 imploration1575 importuning1582 implore1590 suing1591 treating1595 exoration1610 implorement1611 imploring1611 suppliance?1611 importunement1665 solicitancy1665 beseechmenta1680 instancing1736 suppliancy1812 beg1814 clamouring1884 opportuning1972 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 2301 Whanne I this Supplicacioun..Hadde after min entente write Unto Cupide and to Venus. c1450 ( G. Chaucer Complaint to Purse (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 26 Ye that mowen alle myn harme amende Haue mynde vpon my supplicacion. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 227 His moder and his wife..made a supplicacion to hym for the savegarde of the cite. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 186 They assaulted me with more serious supplications, not holding me..excusable. 1669 J. Owen Pract. Expos. 130th Psalm (new ed.) 163 It is not a supplication to them for help, that is intended, but an enquiry after the Experience in the case in hand. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xviii. 94 Peace was at length granted to their humble supplications. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. viii. 301 In a moment the noise and bravado..was hushed into a supplication for forgiveness. 1919 Railroad Telegrapher June 770/1 Marwin raised his eyes suddenly to hers, and there was a supplication in them. 1992 J. Critchley Floating Voter (BNC) 138 John Gummer was announced, but Margaret Thatcher listened with scant patience to his supplications. 2. a. The action of addressing a solemn request to God (or a god); prayer. Frequently in in supplication, to make supplication. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory litany?c1225 supplication?c1400 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. iii. l. 4594 Þis is oonly þe manere, þat is to seyen hope and prayeres, for whiche it semeþ þat [men] mowen speken wiþ god, and by resoun of supplicacioun ben conioigned to þilk clernesse. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts i. 14 These all continued with one acorde in prayer and supplicacion. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bi The sayd Moyses..made supplicacion to god. 1561 H. Becher tr. Vocation & Callyng all Nations i. iv. sig. Dviii The whiche lawe of supplication and praier, the deuocion of all priestes, and of all faythfull men doth..agreably holde. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. ii. 263 Making supplication..unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices. 1682 J. Owen Disc. Work Holy Spirit vii. 148 This Utterance is a Gift of the Holy Ghost, so also is Prayer as to the manner of the performance of it by words in Supplication. 1750 Universal Mag. Oct. 182/2 Great God of mercy! while I bend In supplication to thy throne, Incline thine ear. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 261 Making supplication to St. John, in a fragment of simple melody, or Canto fermo. 1832 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 21 Feb. He stood in the rear end of his frail bark, his hands clasped in supplication. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 697 At last it seemed that heaven had been stormed by the violence of supplication: the truth came out, and many lies with it. 1892 G. M. Fenn New Mistress (new ed.) xiii. 82 When he read prayers morning and evening it seemed to him that he was making supplication for that face alone. 1915 J. M. Campbell Place of Prayer in Christian Relig. v. i. 246 With every form and variety of prayer and supplication. 1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage v. 189/1 The Sioux and other Plains peoples turned in supplication to the Great Spirit. 2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 188 A hardening and pressing he now knew as sexual, a feeling that twenty years distant, kneeling in supplication, still stirred him physically. b. A prayer; spec. (in a litany) a request for a special blessing. Frequently (in plural) coupled with prayers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > a prayer boonc1175 orisona1225 prayerc1300 prayc1330 petition?a1400 orationc1440 supplicationc1443 oratioa1586 vote1619 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 163 (MED) The vje remedie is meke preiers or supplicaciouns to haue forȝeuenes. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xiii. sig. D.iij Bifore the aulters thei offred sacrifices with grete supplycacyons and prayers. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. ii. 1 That..prayeers, supplicacions, peticions, and gevynge of thankes be had for all men. 1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Ciiii With one accorde, to make our commune supplications vnto the. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxxii Assist vs mercifully, O Lord, in these our supplicacions & praiers. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §6. 154 I cannot see one say his Prayers, but in stead of imitating him, I fall into a supplication for him. View more context for this quotation 1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (new ed.) 100 These Collects after the Letany, though the matter of them hath been prayed for before particularly in the Supplications foregoing [etc.]. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxv. 278 In devout supplications to Jesus. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 455 We conclude, that this Kyrie Eleeson, or Domine Miserere, in Arrianus, was a Pagan Litany or Supplication to the Supreme God. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Having made certain Supplications to the Gods to direct them. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xxvi. 225 Each among the train To his own Idol lifts his supplications vain. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. i. 3 The churches resounded with supplications and groans. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 696/1 The common features which are now regarded as essential to a litany, in as far as they consisted of (1) invocations, (2) deprecations, (3) intercessions, (4) supplications. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xi. 38 Mr Watson read prayers in an impressive manner, and the supplications thundered out in his loud voice as though they were threats personally addressed to each boy. 1954 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 21 Nov. 36/7 The invocations and supplications will be sung by the 50 chancel choir boys and about 35 sixth graders. 2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 July 54/4 Encounters with najes (polluted) individuals had ‘nullified’ his prayers and supplications to God and the Imams. 3. The action of supplicating; humble or earnest pleading or entreaty. Frequently in to make supplication. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty halsingc825 bisocnea1250 beseechinga1300 scritha1325 adjurementa1382 obsecrationa1382 supplication1417 jurationc1425 treatyc1450 treatise1470 entreatya1530 obtestation1531 entreat1532 greetc1540 entreature?1548 supplicamusa1580 treat1601 beseech1609 instant1610 impetration1618 solicit1639 entreatment1825 plea1925 1417 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 58 Hee dayly made suplication to have peace. ?1449–50 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 204/2 Hit hath cawsid us alle to make supplicacion unto the Duke of Yorke, and his Counsail. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxxi. f. lxvii He..ordeyned such meanes as byllys of supplicacion and other, that the causes & matiers of poore men myght come to his knowlege. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 20^v They made humble supplication to the Admirall. 1611 W. Adams Let. 23 Oct. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 71 Soe agein I made supplication and boldly spake myself w'th him, at w'ch he gave me noe aunswer. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1459 I have attempted..the Lords..With supplication prone and Fathers tears To accept of ransom for my Son. View more context for this quotation 1758 Scots Mag. Mar. 135/1 I might as well have petitioned tygers, or made supplication to the wind. 1786 T. Holcroft tr. I. Montolieu Caroline of Lichtfield (ed. 2) I. 274 Permit me to ask you, in your turn, what you were doing there; and what saying, to Louisa, in an attitude of such supplication? 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 475 Pathetic earnestness of supplication. 1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 24 Mar. 178/1 On making supplication to them by joining his hands, they retreated a short distance, and fired at him. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away & Other Stories 51 He looked a long time down at the earth, then glanced up at her with a touch of supplication in his uneasy eyes. 1991 N. Rush Mating vii. 452 He had to stop sending out waves of fear and supplication. 2010 News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) (Nexis) 24 Feb. a1 Guests might include..a party of El Gaucho patrons who have made supplication to enter. 4. a. A formal, usually written, petition made to a king, official, court, etc. Now chiefly Law. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > one who requests or petitions > letter or document bill1377 petition1414 supplicationc1419 subligationc1600 fire briefa1643 begging-letter1849 slum1851 c1419 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xvi A supplication of grevous compleynt put unto us by Sir Rogier Wodehill. 1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §13. m. 5 Besechying mekely unto your hie and noble grace, þat þis my supplication..may be in þis your parlement entred, and of record enacte. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 143 Þat all supplicacions wich shalbe made to þe kynge..be sende to þe..counsell. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H2 Whats heere? the humble supplication Of Don Bazulto for his murdred sonne. c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 90 Schir patrick gray..passit haistelie with the said wreitting and supplicatioun of the kingis to the erle of douglas. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. B1 Great wagers were layd..that when the Supplication was sent, it would not be receyued; or if receyued, it would not be read ouer. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) Suppl. 491 The supplicants gave in a Supplication to his Majestie's Commissioners for a free Generall Assemblie and Parliaments. ?1750 Hist. Lawrence Lazy vii. 22 A numerous train of shoemakers, glovers, and taylors apprentices..making most earnest and humble supplication to the court in behalf of Lawrence. 1787 Daily Universal Reg. 18 Sept. 2/4 The Deputation from the Court of Aids presented, on Sunday evening last, a reiterative supplication to the King. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 27 A paper, termed, a Remonstrance and Supplication. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 71 To have the Supplication put into his Majesty's own hands. 1876 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 1 11 In 1390..a supplication was presented to the King in Parliament by Thomas, Lord Erskine, stating that if Isabella should die without issue, his wife..would be entitled to one half of the Earldom. 1908 G. Cormack Egypt in Asia xiii. 193 Next day came from Kadesh a herald bearing a written supplication, which the poet professes to reproduce. 1991 Internat. Jrnl. Law & Family 5 324 The trial court denied the father's supplication on the ground that the proper vehicle for such a request was an appeal rather than a bill of exceptions. b. Oxford University. A formal request for a degree or for incorporation (cf. incorporate v. 3b). Cf. supplicat n., supplicate v. 1b. In later use also South Asian. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > presenting or petitioning for degree supplicat1665 presentation1683 supplication1691 1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 640 This year was a Supplication made in the ven. Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere..to be graduated in Divinity. 1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. i. 139 According to antient Custom, Graces or Supplications for Degrees are proposed and granted in the Congregation of Regent Masters. 1810 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 3 In the Congregation degrees are conferred, graces or supplications for them having been there previously proposed and passed. 1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 508 This abstention on the part of Wykehamists from the ‘supplications’, which had come to be regarded as essential to all other candidates. 1904 E. Boehmer Spanish Reformers III. 64 On April 20. the University received the supplication of Villiers, Doctor of Civil Law and Professor of Theology, to incept in theology, without payment, as he, an exile for religion, could not afford it. 1966 V. K. R. V. Rao Educ. & Human Resource Devel. ii. 51 The time of graduation or supplication for the conferment of degree. 2010 T. A. Sowerby Renaissance & Reform in Tudor Eng. 19 While it was common for the university..to permit supplication for the degree after three years, Morison petitioned two terms earlier than this. 5. Roman History. A public religious ceremony of thanksgiving (typically to honour a victorious general) or intercession (in time of war, after unfavourable omens, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > thanksgiving > [noun] supplication1600 thanksgiving1641 Te Deum1679 society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > intercessory deprecation1556 supplication1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. 402 There was also a solemne supplication holden through the cittie: wherein the people adored and praied the gods to prosper and bring to an happie end, this warre. 1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. 161 In the ende of the second Commentarie, we reade of a supplication granted by the senate, for 15 daies. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 10 By reason that his affaires sped well..hee obtained in regard thereof solemne Supplications both oftner, and to hold more daies than ever any man did (before himselfe). 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) II. vii. 229 After the contemptible account which Cicero gives of Bibulus's conduct in Syria, it must appear strange to see him honored with a supplication, and aspiring even to a Triumph. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. (at cited word) On subduing the Sabines, in the year of the city 304, a supplication of one day only was ordained. 1854 E. Greswell Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ III. xiv. 162 A supplication or thanksgiving of five days' duration was decreed in consequence of these tidings. 1904 H. S. Williams Historians' Hist. World V. xxii. 520 On the motion of Cicero the senate decreed a supplication of fifteen days for these victories. 1997 Classical Philol. 92 294 In the spring of 250 Decius ordered a general supplication of the gods for the security of the emperor and his house. 2001 tr. R. Turcan Gods Anc. Rome 100 After the defeat of Antiochus..the Senate decreed a three day supplication. Derivatives † supplicationer n. Obsolete a person who makes a supplication; a suppliant. ΘΚΠ 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 1585 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 106 Against th'untruth of such libellers and supplicationers. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat 365 The Protestationer, Demonstrationer, Supplicationer, Appellationer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † supplicationv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: supplication n. Etymology: < supplication n. Compare earlier supplicate v. Obsolete. rare. transitive. = supplicate v. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > petition procurea1387 motion1476 solicit1530 supplication1593 supplicate1601 petition1607 petitionate1624 move1633 address1698 bill1722 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 16^v I haue..humbly supplicationd you, to accept of my largesse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1393v.1593
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