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?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.

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.