Supplicate

//ˈsʌplɪkeɪt//

Synonyms for "supplicate" (50 found)

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Closest matches (10)

Verb(5 words)

implore petition plead sifflicate thig

adjure appeal appeal to apply approach

Strong matches (15)

beg beseech brace call call for help call on call upon clamor for commune with god conjure crave cry for cry on cry to

Verb(1 words)

beseech

Related words (25)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

9 entries

ask for beg bespeak call for implore petition pray quest request

Related terms

9 entries

supplicancy supplicant supplicantly supplicat supplication supplicative supplicator supplicatory supplicavit

derived

3 entries

supplicated supplicating unsupplicated

has context

1 entries

oxford university

manner of

3 entries

beg petition request

related to

9 entries

academic beg beseech ceremony degree entreat prayer supplicant supplication

Translations

70 translations across 28 languages.

Ancient Greek

2 entries

ἀντῐβολέω verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
ἱκετεύω verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Aramaic

1 entries

כפש verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Armenian

4 entries

աղաչել verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
աղաչել verb (to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority)
աղերսել verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
հայցել verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Assamese

4 entries

খটা verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
খটা verb (to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority)
খাট verb (to humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority)
খাটা verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Catalan

1 entries

suplicar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

丐乞 verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
哀告 verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
懇求 /恳求 verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
求告 verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Esperanto

1 entries

petegi verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Finnish

4 entries

anoa verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
anoa verb (to make a formal request (to Oxford University) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself)
anoa verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)
anoa verb (to ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority)

French

1 entries

supplier verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

German

3 entries

anflehen verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
bitten verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)
ersuchen verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Gothic

2 entries

𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽 verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌽 verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)

Greek

1 entries

ικετεύω verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Hungarian

2 entries

kér verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
könyörög verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Italian

1 entries

supplicare verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Japanese

1 entries

哀願する verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Ladino

1 entries

arogar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Latin

4 entries

comprecor verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)
obsecrō verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
precor verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
prehēnsō verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Middle English

2 entries

axen verb (to ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority)
mensken verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)

Mongolian

2 entries

гуйх verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
ᠭᠤᠶᠤᠬᠤ verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Occitan

2 entries

sosplegar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
suplicar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Old Armenian

3 entries

աղաչեմ verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)
աղերսեմ verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
հայցեմ verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Old English

1 entries

þingian verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)

Portuguese

3 entries

deprecar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
implorar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
suplicar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Romanian

1 entries

suplica verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Spanish

2 entries

deprecar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
suplicar verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Turkish

4 entries

rica etmek verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
yakarmak verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)
yalvarmak verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))
yalvarmak verb (to make a humble request to (a deity or spiritual being) in a prayer)

Volapük

1 entries

begön verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Welsh

1 entries

erfyn verb (to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority))

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"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.

Source: wiktionary

Peter nobly acknowledgeth error, ſuſpecteth an interfering Devil, and ſupplicateth his Reader— […]

Source: wiktionary

[H]e had been conjoined with Petrarch to supplicate Clement VI. to remove the Holy See from Avignon to Rome.

Source: wiktionary

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?

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