the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > a thing of a person > ask for a favour (3)
To pray for, ask as a boon. Obsolete.
transitive. To depend on for success or survival; to stand in need of; to need. Cf. need, v.2 7.
To crave, request, ask (a boon, a favour, leave); in 1488 2 with the person as object. Obsolete.