supplicate.
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
Meaning & usage
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. 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.
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
to supplicate the Deity
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
To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat. 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.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *upó 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”)).
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