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Word Meanings - OBSECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. . Cockerman. (more info) on religious grounds; ob + sacrare to declare as sacred,

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  • SUPPLICATE
    supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
  • IMPETRATE
    Obtained by entreaty. Ld. Herbert.
  • OBSECRATE
    To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. . Cockerman. (more info) on religious grounds; ob + sacrare to declare as sacred,
  • BESEECH
    1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
  • IMPORTUNELY
    In an importune manner.
  • ENTREATY
    1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
  • SOLICITUDE
    The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
  • IMPORTUNE
    derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
  • PETITIONARILY
    By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.
  • ENTREATFUL
    Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
  • CRAVEN
    Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
  • SOLICITRESS
    A woman who solicits.
  • IMPLORER
    One who implores.
  • PETITIONEE
    A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
  • SOLICITATE
    Solicitous. Eden.
  • SOLICITOUS
    Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful. "Solicitous of my reputation." Dryden. "He was solicitous for his advice." Calerendon. Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be
  • BESEECHING
    Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
  • IMPLORE
    To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. Imploring all the
  • PETITION
    1. A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. A house of
  • SOLICITATION
    1. The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity. 2. Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses. Locke.
  • MISENTREAT
    To treat wrongfully. Grafton.

 

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