Definition of "solicit" []

• To seek to obtain by persuasion, entreaty, or formal application: a candidate who solicited votes among the factory workers. (verb-transitive)
• To petition persistently; importune: solicited the neighbors for donations. (verb-transitive)
• To entice or incite to evil or illegal action. (verb-transitive)
• To approach or accost (a person) with an offer of sexual services. (verb-transitive)
• To make solicitation or petition for something desired. (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.

• "There's a technical definition of the term solicit; and the question is whether or not being in a fundraising dinner committee counts as soliciting."
• "Good/bad, male/female, and because of the solicit is suggesting once again "testosterone", I'm thinking the obvious choice gender wise, is the complete opposite which is the "estrogen.""
• "If you want to hold true to what the solicit is referring."