BESEECH

bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure

(verb) ask for or request earnestly; “The prophet bid all people to become good persons”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

beseech (third-person singular simple present beseeches, present participle beseeching, simple past and past participle besought or beseeched)

to beg or implore (a person)

to request or beg for

Noun

beseech (plural beseeches)

(archaic) A request.

Anagrams

• Beeches, beeches, beseche

Source: Wiktionary

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Be*seech", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besought; p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeching.] Etym: [OE. bisechen, biseken (akin to G. besuchen to visit); pref. be- + sechen, seken, to seek. See Seek.]

1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton.

Syn.

– To beg; to crave.

– To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. These words agree in marking that sense of want which leads men to beg some favor. To solicit is to make a request, with some degree of earnestness and repetition, of one whom we address as a superior. To entreat implies greater urgency, usually enforced by adducing reasons or arguments. To beseech is still stronger, and belongs rather to the language of poetry and imagination. To implore denotes increased fervor of entreaty, as addressed either to equals or superiors. To supplicate expresses the extreme of entreaty, and usually implies a state of deep humiliation. Thus, a captive supplicates a conqueror to spare his life. Men solicit by virtue of their interest with another; they entreat in the use of reasoning and strong representations; they beseech with importunate earnestness; they implore from a sense of overwhelming distress; they supplicate with a feeling of the most absolute inferiority and dependence.

Be*seech", n.

Definition: Solicitation; supplication. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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