(v. t.) To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
(n.) Solicitation; supplication.
Example Sentences:
(1) After his death, the young man's parents contacted police to admit that they had helped him achieve his wish to end "a second-class existence" by taking him abroad – despite praying to the last second, and beseeching him to change his mind.
(2) Opposition to the policy decision was mounted by the American Medical Association which considered it "frightening and abhorrent" and the american College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which beseeched Congress to restore the patient's rights to receive full information and the health professional obligation to provide the information.
(3) In the name of this suffering people, whose cries to heaven become more deafening each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression,” he said in a speech to government soldiers the day before his death.
(4) He's beseeching the members of the committee to recognize the value of the work the intelligence community does.
(5) This is not a man who has to charm or beseech an audience; his ideas are what he uses to win people over.
(6) He stares at her, “beseeching, demanding my help, but I am powerless, too.
(8) The prime minister doesn’t hesitate to beseech the markets to attack the country,” Syriza said.
(9) After its Google News search returned more than 43,000 results for the search "Hollande + Normal", and more than 88,000 for "President + normal", the site launched a "No 'Normal' Day", hashtagged on Twitter, in which it beseeched journalists to broaden their vocabulary, asking did they really mean "normal", or perhaps "ordinary", "natural", "sober", "honest" or "reasonable"?
(10) Kassig’s parents have also posted a video message online beseeching the group to release him unharmed.
(11) At least 100,000 tourists who had driven to Greece from neighbouring Bulgaria and Serbia were stranded, with thousands abandoning their cars by the side of the road and officials taking the highly unusual step of beseeching visitors to stock up on fuel in Macedonia.
(12) That said, the Telegraph’s commenting threads do not seem to be similarly filled with Green party supporters beseeching its readership to consider the full consequences of climate change.
(13) His critic pleaded for "this whole sorry saga to go the way of the dodo", while other Fry fans beseeched him not pull the plug on his tweets, prompting Fry into a change of heart.
(14) he was asked by beseeching Spanish reporters after taking training at Seville, as the saga of his move to Spurs dragged on.
(15) Finally, the necessity of uniform techniques and methods of evaluation is beseeched so that results of new innovations can be analyzed earlier and more critically.
(16) But, beseeched Paxman, "do you think that's a greater consideration than the fact that they might be in love?"
(17) Come see yourself.” Blair urged Gaddafi to give him a phone number so he could contact him urgently, and beseeched him to “do something that allows the process to start, end the bloodshed, start a new constitution”.
(18) In debates with friends, family and neighbours, at times hectoring, at others beseeching, filled with venom and vigour on both sides, such a close race is going to be won one vote at a time.
(19) Oscillating between fury and despair, the customers beseech pharmacists to hand over medications that they frequently do not have in stock.
(20) Seconds before, Dalglish was on the touchline beseeching his player to calm down.
Solicit
Definition:
(v. t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
(v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.
(v. t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.
(v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
(v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.
Example Sentences:
(1) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(2) Vertically oriented stimuli were paired with a horizontal response solicited at different locations but always involving the same hand posture.
(3) Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent security researcher, said he has tracked the Bitcoin address used to solicit donations for some of the celebrity pictures and found it belongs to the owner of a Dutch photo-hosting site – which he says is also distributing an "original version" of the pictures released earlier this week.
(4) The 54-year-old, who was jailed for seven years for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, has been fighting extradition since 2004.
(5) Solicitation of patients' assessment of the value and meaningfulness of the rehabilitative task has practical importance.
(6) The law will decriminalise street sex workers, who will no longer be charged for soliciting, but it will still be illegal for two women to work together, or to run a brothel.
(7) Fehring's methodology was adapted for soliciting input from nurse experts for the 134 labels described in this issue.
(8) A questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit the experiences, opinions, and recommendations of the users of this system.
(9) Health departments in Canada solicited reports of this newly recognized illness.
(10) As for the prolongation of the parasitism, it would seem to result on one hand, from a reduced solicitation of the means of defence owing to a smaller number of worms and, on another hand, from the slowing down of the hypocorticosteronemy through the buffer effect of lactation with all the consequences flowing from this at the level of the specific and aspecific defence reactions.
(11) A separate questionnaire was sent to 9 pacemaker manufacturers to solicit information concerning the volume of pacemaker sales and their opinions on a variety of subjects.
(12) Soliciting behavior (hop-darting) was not enhanced by any treatment, suggesting that catecholamine activity has an inhibitory influence on the stop component of sexual behavior, but not on the whole copulatory pattern.
(13) Male rats with ARD displayed not only lordosis but also soliciting behaviors in response to 2 micrograms estradiol benzoate (EB) and 0.5 mg progesterone (P).
(14) To test the hypothesis that death might be related to various clinical parameters, retrospective data collection was solicited on 175 ECMO-related CDH deaths from 41 American ECMO centers (ELSO Registry 1980 through 1989).
(15) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.
(16) Responses were solicited from the program directors and chief residents.
(17) Results through the first 5 months of this project are presented with copies of all materials used in the solicitation.
(18) I did so in part after soliciting and receiving this response to the center’s mock “nutrition label” for the salmon from Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty, on 27 June: Rebuttal of Center for Food Safety AquAdvantage (AAS) Salmon composition label: In the United States, the average height of a student entering the third grade is 45 inches.
(19) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
(20) Sexual performance of the males did not differ under the two conditions of testing, but the rate of sexual solicitation by the females was significantly higher when treated with the vaginal lavage.