supplicate
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/icons/point.icon BEG, ENTREAT, BESEECH, IMPLORE, SUPPLICATE, ADJURE, IMPORTUNE mean to ask urgently.
BEG suggests earnestness or insistence in the asking.
e.g. they begged for help
ENTREAT implies an effort to persuade or to overcome resistance.
e.g. entreated me to join them
BESEECH and IMPLORE imply a deeply felt anxiety.
e.g. I beseech you to have mercy implored her not to leave him
SUPPLICATE suggests a posture of humility.
e.g. with bowed heads they supplicated their Lord
ADJURE implies advising as well as pleading.
e.g. we were adjured to tell the truth
IMPORTUNE suggests an annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request.
e.g. importuning viewers for contributions
verb no object
ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly:
(…に) «…を» 嘆願［懇願］する «for»
e.g. with infinitive : the plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.
DERIVATIVES
supplicatory |ˈsəpləkəˌtôrē| adjective
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Latin supplicat- ‘implored’, from the verb supplicare, from sub- ‘from below’ + placere ‘propitiate’.