(v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
(v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
(v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
(v. t.) To invite; to entertain.
(v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
(v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
(n.) Entreaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(2) He spends most of the book entreating actors and directors, whom he compares to generals, to master their craft.
(3) Children in the 1980s were entreated to do the same by the BBC TV series Why Don't You, which somewhat confusingly called on its viewers to "switch off your TV set, and go do something less boring instead".
(4) I have tried to distract, grab and run but my little one slays me with his doleful eyes, entreating: "What if I get an ouchy in the playground?"
(5) But as the final entry in Hansberry's journal entreated: "If anything should happen - before 'tis done - may I trust that all commas and periods will be placed and someone will complete my thoughts.
(6) Front and center will be whether the president has obstructed justice – first, by entreating Comey to “let go” of the Flynn investigation, and second, by firing Comey.
(7) Rather than reach out he retreats, and roils at the fickleness of everything – entreating media boosters to validate him, telling the colleagues they have no right to desert him, while pondering who he can jettison in order to save himself.
(8) 9.33pm BST 89 min: Diego Simeone entreats his own support to make noise by throwing some frantic semaphore shapes.
(9) Another campaign poster, referring to the clan name of the late leader, entreats: "Do it for Madiba, vote ANC!"
(10) And he knew that when people went to WikiLeaks, they weren’t going to find damaging information about [his allies] Steve Bannon or Reince Priebus or the RNC [Republican National Committee].” Donald Trump to Russia: hack and publish Hillary Clinton's 'missing' emails Read more At his last press conference, in July, Trump effectively asked a foreign power to carry out cyber-espionage, entreating Russia to find Clinton’s 30,000 “missing” emails , from the private server she used while secretary of state.
Supplication
Definition:
(n.) The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
(n.) A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.
(n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then suddenly a horrible drought comes along, and they can’t figure out why they can’t supplicate their gods adequately to prevent it.” It didn’t help that Tikal’s water management system had become increasingly reliant on collecting rainwater in reservoirs, at the cost of groundwater.
(2) In those times the few humans who passed that way came as supplicants, filled with a sense of awe and magic.
(3) She added: “It makes you wonder: what does Putin have on Trump that could make Trump act like a supplicant on the international stage?
(4) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.
(5) Young people are reduced to being supplicants,” he says.
(6) With minimal media interest, the US African Command (Africom) has deployed troops to 35 African countries, establishing a familiar network of authoritarian supplicants eager for bribes and armaments.
(7) Supplicant states don’t probe too deeply into delicacies, such as where profits are actually earned, and then set out what it is deemed reasonable for a corporate to pay in so-called “letters of comfort”.
(8) So Daniel Blake is not a supplicant, he’s a man of dignity.” First thing in the morning, I feel about 85.
(9) Unfavourable factors for long-term course were: low intellectual capacity (W), hysteroid personality (C), syntonic personality (W), asthenic personality, sensitivity to praise (C), tendency to feel under observation (W), and some symptoms during the index period: tendency to seclusion (C), ideas of reference (C), dryness of mouth (C), difficulty in falling asleep (C), dreamlike feeling (C), supplicating attitude (C).
(10) I deliberately used archaic language for the chorus: "banish" rather than "drive out" and "we pray thee", a supplication not in the original.
(11) If this chancellor has a vision, it’s one of Britain supplicating before authoritarian regimes while our high-technology renewables industry goes to the wall.” A spokesman for the prime minister declined to elaborate on why the Saudi trip cost so much more than other overseas trips.
(12) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
(13) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
(14) We're like sovereign and supplicant, but Perlman, at once bearish and boyish, remains a plain-spoken kid from the northern end of Manhattan, not anxious to lord it up or sound too clever.
(15) And that switch from buyer to seller, from potentate to supplicant, is notoriously difficult.
(16) A trio of musicians - accordion, bajo sexto and double bass - drift in and launch into one of the many corridos written about the narco-saint - another offering from a grateful supplicant.
(17) Couples go out for dinner and spend the entire time with their heads bent in silent supplication to the glowing god.
(18) It looks to outsiders as if Ireland has received only a lukewarm embrace from its EU partners, who have chosen to send a message to other would-be supplicants that it's better to stay away.
(19) Yet, consider the mainstream supplication that welcomed the Wikileaks editorial.
(20) What degree of transparency and accountability can we, as supplicants, enforce on our new partner?