To ask, request (a person) of, after, for a thing, to do something; also, with double object, a person a thing.

To entreat, beseech (a person) to do something; also of (the thing asked for). Obsolete.

To ask, request, or beseech (a person) to do something. transitive. With infinitive. Obsolete.

With object and infinitive (also with to and infinitive understood from the context, and intransitive… To say or otherwise communicate to (a…

To ask, request, or beseech (a person) to do something. transitive. With that-clause. Also occasionally with omission of that. Obsolete.

intransitive. Chiefly with infinitive or for. To appeal to (a person, organization, etc.) to do something; to require, urge, or demand that (a…

To express or communicate one's will or wish with regard to something. With simple object, object and… transitive. To request, entreat (a person) to…

transitive. To ask (a person), esp. in a polite or formal manner, to do something.

To request or engage (a person) to do (something). Obsolete.

transferred. To ask as a favour or act of grace; hence to ask humbly, earnestly, supplicatingly; to… transitive. To beg a person to do a thing.