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  1. ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
    supplicate God's blessing
  2. make a humble, earnest petition
    supplicate for permission
  3. ask humbly (for something)
    He supplicated the King for clemency

How To Use supplicate In A Sentence

  • I supplicate to Allah for my father and brother to accept Islam Still they are not aware that I have reverted towards Islam.
  • He was to compliment the mistress, and bribe the confessor, to panegyrize or supplicate, to laugh or weep, to accommodate himself to every caprice, to lull every suspicion, to treasure every hint, to be everything, to observe everything, to endure everything. Machiavelli
  • In this formula, practitioners of religion are more or less powerless over the supernatural beings with whom they deal; they can only supplicate those beings for favours and then await their response.
  • He supplicates before Lord Shiva for a boon of spiritual bliss.
  • supplicate for permission
  • Our ingrained habit is to smile, to appease, to placate, to supplicate and to accept the behavior of the powerful, especially when we stand next to them. Adam Galinsky: Research on Power Teaches Why Blagojevich Did What he Did (...and Why he Might Get Away With It)
  • _Erynnis_, from the indignation and perturbations they raise in the mind; _Eumenĭdes_, from their placability to such as supplicate them, as in the instance of Orestes, and Argos, upon his following the advice of Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
  • Traditional practitioners include herbalists, bone setters, diviners, and ritual specialists who may supplicate spirits or ancestors.
  • He supplicates before Lord Shiva for a boon of spiritual bliss.
  • The loss of such a man, in such a crisis; of a man who possessed so large and growing a share of the public confidence, and whose administration has recently borrowed new lustre from the crowning achievements of our armies; of a ruler whom victory was inspiring with the wise and paternal magnanimity which sought to make the conciliation as cordial as the strife has been deadly: the loss of such a President, at such a conjuncture, is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep, sincere, and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven. The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work
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