Definition of "supplicate" [sup•pli•cate]

• To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying. (verb-transitive)
• To make a humble entreaty to; beseech. (verb-transitive)
• To make a humble, earnest petition; beg. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "_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"
• "May I "supplicate" Rodriguez to purchase a copy of William Strunk and E.B. White's"
• "Rabbi Akibah took one bite of the divine bounty, and proposed that God set up a restaurant where families might convene and supplicate praise onto his Name while enjoying shrimp-avocado tacos and flame-broiled hanger steak fresh off the grill."