Usually means: Ask humbly for something earnestly.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. supplicate: Merriam-Webster
  2. supplicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supplicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. supplicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supplicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Supplicate, supplicate: Wordnik
  7. supplicate: Wiktionary
  8. supplicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. supplicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. supplicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. supplicate: Dictionary.com
  12. Supplicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. supplicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. supplicate: Rhymezone
  15. Supplicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. supplicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. supplicate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. supplicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. supplicate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supplicate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supplicate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (supplicate)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
verb:  (specifically, Oxford University, archaic) Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
verb:  (specifically, religion) To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
verb:  To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
verb:  (specifically, Oxford University) Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.

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