Definition of "solicited" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of solicit. (verb)

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• "Just to give you an idea of how important the city views this effort to be, in spite of our fiscal crisis, more than $1.5 million has been voted by the city to fund the Business Marketing Corporation, with another $2 million being solicited from the private sector."
• "Isaac, whose sanction they earnestly solicited, is expressive of the character of a superstitious people."
• "He was again solicited to restore peace to his country, by timely compliance with the will of his sovereign."