supplicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: 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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: supplicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supplicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supplicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supplicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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, […]
gloss: To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
specifically
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
examples: 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; […]
gloss: To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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, […]
gloss: To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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?
Through no disturbance of my soul, / Or strong compunction in me wrought, / I supplicate for thy controul; […]
gloss: To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
specifically
examples: 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.
Incorporations, Or ſuch vvho have taken a Degree in another Univerſity, and have been embodied or taken into the boſom of this of Oxon., and have enjoyed the ſame Liberties and Privileges, as if they had taken their Degree here. […] Rich[ard] Kirkby Maſt[er] of Arts of this Univ[ersity] and Bach[elor] of Divin[ity] of the Univ[ersity] of Paris, vvas incorporated Bach. of Div. of this Univerſity.—VVhich being done, he ſupplicated the ſame day to be admitted or licenſed to proceed in Divinity; but vvhether granted it appears not.
Synonyms: beseech
entreat
implore
petition
plead
Antonyms: demand
insist
Related words: supplicancy
supplicant
supplicantly
supplicat
supplication
supplicative
supplicator
supplicatory
supplicavit
Derived words: supplicated
supplicating
supplicatingly
unsupplicated
Translations:
lang: Aramaic
word: כפש
lang: Armenian
word: աղաչել
roman: aġačʻel
lang: Armenian
word: աղերսել
roman: aġersel
lang: Armenian
word: հայցել
roman: haycʻel
lang: Old Armenian
word: աղերսեմ
roman: ałersem
lang: Old Armenian
word: հայցեմ
roman: haycʻem
lang: Assamese
word: খাটা
roman: khata
lang: Assamese
word: খটা
roman: khota
lang: Catalan
word: suplicar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 哀告
roman: āigào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 丐乞
roman: gàiqǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 懇求 /恳求
roman: kěnqiú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蘄求 /蕲求
roman: qíqiú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 祈求
roman: qíqiú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 求告
roman: qiúgào
lang: Esperanto
word: petegi
lang: Finnish
word: anoa
lang: Finnish
word: pyytää
lang: French
word: supplier
lang: German
word: anflehen
lang: German
word: ersuchen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽
roman: aihtrōn
lang: Greek
word: ικετεύω
roman: iketévo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀντῐβολέω
roman: antĭboléō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἱκετεύω
roman: hiketeúō
lang: Hungarian
word: kér
lang: Hungarian
word: könyörög
lang: Italian
word: supplicare
lang: Japanese
word: 哀願する
roman: aigan suru
lang: Ladino
word: arogar
lang: Latin
word: supplicō
lang: Latin
word: obsecrō
lang: Latin
word: precor
lang: Latin
word: prehēnsō
lang: Mongolian
word: гуйх
roman: gujx
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠭᠤᠶᠤᠬᠤ
roman: ɣuyuqu
lang: Occitan
word: suplicar
lang: Occitan
word: sosplegar
lang: Portuguese
word: suplicar
lang: Portuguese
word: deprecar
lang: Portuguese
word: implorar
lang: Romanian
word: suplica
lang: Spanish
word: suplicar
lang: Spanish
word: deprecar
lang: Turkish
word: rica etmek
lang: Turkish
word: yalvarmak
lang: Volapük
word: begön
lang: Welsh
word: erfyn
lang: Finnish
word: anoa
lang: Armenian
word: աղաչել
roman: aġačʻel
lang: Assamese
word: খাট
roman: khat
lang: Assamese
word: খাটা
roman: khata
lang: Assamese
word: খটা
roman: khota
lang: Finnish
word: anoa
lang: Finnish
word: pyytää
lang: Finnish
word: anoa