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Meanings of supplicate in English

To make a request in a humble manner; to call upon in supplication.

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        Examples for "pray"
        1
        I pray they now realise that violence adds no value to society.
        The Irish Times
        2
        He asked those present to pray for the victims and their families.
        The Guardian
        3
        I want my family to pray for me, AFP news agency reports.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Men used to pray there in Latin; today they pray in French.
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        5
        So, let us stand by it; pray for it; fight for it.
        Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
        1
        Now I must beg you to stand aside; she requires immediate attention.
        Jane and the madness of lord byron: being a jane austen mystery
        2
        It is better to beg in the town than in the fields.
        Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) / Classic Tales and Old-F...
        3
        But if the situation is offered, I beg you not accept it.
        Caleb's crossing
        4
        I shall humbly bow before her as spokesman and beg our case.
        Return of the Crimson Guard
        5
        And you didn't beg her to wait, or ask for more money.
        Sons of the Oak
        Usage of supplicate in English
        1
        During this part of the ceremony, the attendant Brahmins supplicate the Deity.
        Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
        2
        We will supplicate for you the aid and assistance from on high.
        The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1)
        3
        Shrines he will specially supplicate for the guidance and assistance of the N.S.A.
        Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand
        4
        Turn thou to the Kingdom of Abha and supplicate to the Highest Concourse.
        Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
        5
        On his behalf I supplicate from the Threshold of Oneness pardon and forgiveness.
        Japan Will Turn Ablaze!
        6
        To remonstrate against legal cruelty, was vain; to supplicate obdurate brutality, was hopeless.
        The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Volume 04
        7
        Beyond this we hardly know for what good to supplicate the Divine Mercy.
        The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 / Bay Stat...
        8
        And I beseech you to have patience with me while I supplicate you.
        The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2)
        9
        I supplicate thee, O king, falling prostrate before thee after the barbaric fashion.
        The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
        10
        It is now too late to supplicate them, as you wanted to do.
        Marie Antoinette and Her Son
        11
        We did not have to supplicate for soldiers on either side.
        Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
        12
        They never condescend to supplicate brute force for aid to crush their opponents.
        Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2
        13
        After all this what remained but to supplicate his modesty to rest contented.
        The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; /...
        14
        The urge to supplicate before Xytan was overwhelming, but he resisted.
        Ghosts of Onyx
        15
        I implore you, I supplicate you not to talk such bosh.
        A Miscellany of Men
        16
        I then suddenly contracted my expenses, but was unwilling to supplicate for assistance.
        The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Volume 04
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