supplicate
pronunciation
How to pronounce supplicate in British English:
UK ['sʌplɪkeɪt]
How to pronounce supplicate in American English:
US [ˈsʌplɪˌket]
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- Verb:
- ask humbly (for something)
- make a humble, earnest petition
- ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
Word Origin
- supplicate
- supplicate: [15] Someone who supplicates is etymologically ‘bending or folding up underneath’ – hence ‘kneeling down to pray’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin supplicāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘down, underneath’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (a relative of English fold). Also formed from sub- and the base *plic- was Latin supplex ‘bending under’, hence ‘submissive’, from which English gets supple [13].=> complicate, fold, ply, supple
- supplicate (v.)
- early 15c., "beg for, beseech," back-formation from supplication or else from Latin supplicatus, past participle of supplicare "plead humbly, beseech, kneel down." Related: Supplicated; supplicating.
Example
- 1. I supplicate you to tell me .
- 2. I do not supplicate to women because they find it unattractive .
- 3. I do not supplicate charity at your doors .
- 4. A man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ;
- 5. Public national fasts on account of sin or to supplicate divine favour were sometimes held .