supplicate
/ˈsəpləˌkeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
Transitive verb
verb
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
Transitive verb
verb
To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- ""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, […]"
- "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."
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”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *pleḱ-, supplicaten, supplicātus, -en
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsəpləˌkeɪt/
- British English: /ˈsʌplɪkeɪt/