supplicate
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supplicate
- /ˈsʌplɪkeɪt/ UK
- /ˈsəpləˌkeɪt/ US
- /ˈsʌpləˌkeɪt/ US
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From Late Middle English supplicaten (“to request (that someone do something)”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin supplicātus (“prayed”) + Middle English -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Supplicātus is the perfect passive participle of supplicō (“to pray, supplicate; to beg, humbly beseech”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from sup- (variant of sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, beneath, under’)) + plicō (“to bend, flex; to fold; to roll up”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold; to plait, weave”)).
verb supplicates · supplicating · supplicated
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To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
"Your Petitioner, in all Submiſſiveneſs, moſt humbly ſupplicateth your Honourable Lordſhips, to be pleaſed to diſpenſe vvith your Petitioner's Attendance, until God ſhall better enable him." Ordered, That this Houſe doth diſpenſe vvith Mr. Baron [Edward] Henden’s Abſence,^([sic – meaning presence])
Similar: implore, obsecrate, petition, plead, pray, sifflicate, thig
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Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
In Nov. 1561 he [William Alley] ſupplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of the Univerſity that the Degree of Bach[elor] of Divinity might be conferr'd on him: vvhich being granted, he ſupplicated for that of Doctor; and that being granted alſo, he vvas admitted to them both ſucceſſively, v
Similar: implore, obsecrate, petition, plead, pray, sifflicate, thig
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To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
to supplicate the Deity
Similar: implore, obsecrate, petition, plead, pray, sifflicate, thig
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To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel
Similar: solicit
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To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
Thus alſo the Church of Svveueland ſupplicateth to the Emperour of Germanie, if ſo bee that in time, vvee may not haue opportunitie for a generall Councell, yet at the lest your Maiestie may appoint a prouinciall aſſembly, &c.
Similar: sifflicate, thig
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Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
He [Robert Talbot] vvas educated […] in Logicals and Philoſophicals in New Coll[ege] of vvhich he became Fellovv (after he had ſerved tvvo Years of probation) an[no] 1523. and left it 5 Years after, being then only Bach[elor] of Arts, ſupplicated for the Degree of Maſter 1529, but not admitted, as I
Similar: sifflicate, thig
Similar: beseech, entreat, implore, petition, plead · Opposite: demand, insist
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verb to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority)
| Español | suplicar, deprecar |
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| 日本語 | 哀願する aigan suru |
| 中文 | 哀告 āigào, 丐乞 gàiqǐ, 懇求 /恳求 kěnqiú, 蘄求 /蕲求 qíqiú, 祈求 qíqiú, 求告 qiúgào |
| Português | suplicar, deprecar, implorar |
| Français | supplier |
| Deutsch | anflehen, ersuchen |
| Italiano | supplicare |
| Ελληνικά | ικετεύω iketévo |
| Română | suplica |
verb to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer
| Deutsch | bitten |
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title = {supplicate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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