To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
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To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
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To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
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To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; t…
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To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.
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To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.
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of Plead
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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
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See Pry.
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