supplicate
IPA: sˈʌpɫʌkeɪt
verb
- (transitive)
- To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- (specifically, Oxford University, archaic) 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.
- (specifically, religion) To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
- To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
- (intransitive)
- To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- (specifically, Oxford University) 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.
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Examples of "supplicate" in Sentences
- Another Republican has had to supplicate to Rush Limbaugh.
- May I "supplicate" Rodriguez to purchase a copy of William Strunk and E.B. White's
- On top of that, you have to supplicate in front of a officer whose salary is paid out of the money that you pay as a tax payer.
- Our ingrained habit is to smile, to appease, to placate, to supplicate and to accept the behavior of the powerful, especially when we stand next to them.
- Islam teaches that the individual who commits suicide has so offended his or her Creator that believers are not allowed to supplicate on behalf of his soul.
- _Erynnis_, from the indignation and perturbations they raise in the mind; _Eumenĭdes_, from their placability to such as supplicate them, as in the instance of Orestes, and Argos, upon his following the advice of
- Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
- Rabbi Akibah took one bite of the divine bounty, and proposed that God set up a restaurant where families might convene and supplicate praise onto his Name while enjoying shrimp-avocado tacos and flame-broiled hanger steak fresh off the grill.
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