supplicate

verb

1. (transitive)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]) until his Health vvill permit him to come hither vvith Safety.”

   “Peter nobly acknowledgeth error, ſuſpecteth an interfering Devil, and ſupplicateth his Reader— […]”

   “[H]e had been conjoined with Petrarch to supplicate Clement VI. to remove the Holy See from Avignon to Rome.”

   “Did they hear me, would they listen, did they pity me supplicating? / Shall I heed them in their anguish? shall I brook to be supplicated?”

   “Yea for health he calleth upon that which is weak, / And for life he beseecheth that which is dead, / And for aid he supplicateth that which hath least experience, […]”

2. (archaic, specifically, transitive)To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.

   “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, vvithout any mention at all of Incorporation.”

3. (specifically, transitive)To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.

   “to supplicate the Deity”

   “[T]hou maiſt freely lay open thy mind to him [Jesus] in prayer, vvhat ever diſtreſs or vvant thou art in come to him in prayer and thou needſt not fear he vvill vvell knovv vvhat it is thou ſupplicateſt him about; […]”

   “[I]t is from him only [Jesus] that man hath illumination, which he surely will receive, if in true humiliation of heart he supplicateth Him in the love of truth, and for the sake of living according to what the Divine Truth teacheth; […]”

4. (transitive)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”

   “[A]nd vvhat art thou that ſupplicateſt my aſſiſtance?”

   “The blood of atonement thou never soughtest. The grace of God thou never supplicatedst—they were unnecessary and contemptuous to thee, and now thou must bear thy burden alone, […]”

5. (intransitive)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.”

   “A man cannot ſometimes brooke to Supplicate or Beg: […] But all theſe Things, are Gracefull in a Frends Mouth, vvhich are bluſhing in a Mans Ovvne.”

   “[I]n the Church is the miraculous shrine of the Madona wᵗʰ Pope Paul III. brought barefooted to the place, supplicating for a victory over the Turks in 1464.”

   “Upon this preſumption, he ſupplicates, vvith the utmoſt earneſtneſs, that I vvill not give vvay to the malice of his enemies.”

   “And vvhat favour is it, vvhich thou thus ſupplicateſt to obtain of me?”

6. (intransitive, specifically)To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.

   “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 can find in the Regiſter of that time.”