v
(intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
n
Obsolete form of beadsman. [(historical) A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.]
n
The act of begging; an imploring request.
v
Archaic spelling of beg. [(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.]
n
(figurative) Used in reference to a plea for help.
n
(obsolete) A vow; a promise.
n
(obsolete) A prayer; a petition.
v
Obsolete spelling of beseech [to beg or implore (a person)]
v
to beg or implore (a person)
n
The act of beseeching; earnest entreaty.
v
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To beseech; entreat.
v
Obsolete spelling of beseek [(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To beseech; entreat.]
n
(archaic) A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
v
(transitive, rare) To confer, grant, or make a wish; wish.
v
Obsolete form of bewrayed.
n
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
n
(dated) One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.
v
(transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
n
(law, Scotland) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.
v
Obsolete spelling of deem [(transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.]
n
A person from whom something is demanded.
n
Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.
n
Obsolete form of doing. [A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.]
v
Obsolete form of implore. [To beg urgently or earnestly.]
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To make an earnest petition or request.
n
One who entreats or beseeches.
adj
Used in entreaty; pleading.
n
The act of entreating or beseeching; a strong petition; pressing solicitation; begging.
v
To urge; to advise earnestly.
v
(transitive) To beseech; adjure.
v
(transitive) To ask for; to demand.
adj
(obsolete) Containing or expressing entreaty.
n
The action of imploring; begging, beseeching.
adj
supplicatory; entreating
n
The act of one who implores; imploration.
n
The act by which somebody is importuned; pleading harassment.
n
A prayer to God on behalf of another person.
n
Alternative form of entreatance [(obsolete) Entreaty.]
n
Synonym of letters rogatory
adj
Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.
v
(intransitive, construed with on) To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.
adj
Relating to litigation.
adj
Relating to litigation.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To beg.
v
(archaic) third-person singular present simple form of obey
v
(transitive) To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.
adj
(obsolete) Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory.
v
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To implore, beseech, plead, beg.
adj
petitioning, soliciting, begging, petitionary
n
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
v
(intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore.
adv
Pronunciation spelling of please, representing primarily German or Slavic accented English. [Used to make a polite request.]
adv
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of please. [Used to make a polite request.]
v
(obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
v
(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
v
(intransitive, now rare) To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument.
n
(poetic) Contraction of prayer. [(uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.]
v
Obsolete spelling of pray [(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.]
n
(law) One who is prayed in aid.
n
(US, law) The standard by which a police officer may make an arrest or conduct a personal or property search, based on the likelihood of a criminal act etc.
n
(slang) Someone holding a position on a probationary basis, subject to performance or examination.
v
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
v
To speak favourably of someone to someone else, in order to help them out.
n
Obsolete spelling of quirister
v
(transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
n
A deeply serious and somber prayer or entreaty.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To ask a question repeatedly.
v
(possibly obsolete) Lancashire, West Country, and possibly other dialects' form of seek
v
(transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
v
Obsolete form of seekest.
n
Obsolete spelling of sell [An act of selling.]
n
(countable) supplication, petition, importuning, or wheedling
n
(law, Scotland) a stay or suspension of proceedings
n
the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
n
(obsolete) Request, petition, prayer, or command.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
n
Petition, request, entreaty.
adj
Entreating with humility.
adj
begging, pleading, supplicating
v
(rare) (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of supplicate
adv
beseechingly, imploringly, in a supplicatory manner
n
A prayer or entreaty to a god.
adj
begging, humbly beseeching, imploring
adj
Obsolete spelling of suppliant [Entreating with humility.]
n
(UK, informal) A law that permitted a police officer to stop, search and potentially arrest people on suspicion of being in breach of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.
n
(Britain, law) A former (1824–1981) law by which police officers were permitted to arrest anyone under suspicion of having committed a crime
v
(obsolete, transitive) To beseech; supplicate; implore.
v
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
n
(rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
n
(obsolete) an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
adj
(law) subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.
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