192 examples of supplicates in sentences
<Ply, plic, plicate> (fold): (1) ply, reply, imply, plight, suppliant, explicit, implicit, implicate, supplicate, duplicate, duplicity, complicate, complicity, accomplice, application, plait, display, plot, employee, exploit, simple, supple; (2) pliant, pliable, replica, explication, inexplicable, multiplication, deploy, triple, quadruple, plexus, duplex.
At the moment of Yan Yost's arrival they were engaged in a religious observance,a consultation, through their prophet, of the Great Spirit, to supplicate his guidance and protection.
On this occasion, my lords, every Briton fixes his eye upon us, and every man who has sagacity enough to discover the dismal approach of publick poverty, now supplicates your lordships, by agreeing to this address, to preserve him from it.
Both in parliament and out, it was publicly boasted that the Union would soon fall to pieces, and that, finding their inability to govern themselves, the different States would, one by one, supplicate to be received back as colonies.
The states-general now assembled, and it was decided to supplicate for peace at the hands of the combined monarchs.
But, should he supplicate your laws in vain, To break, for ever, this disgraceful chain, At least, let gentle usage so abate The galling terrors of its passing state, That he may share kind Heaven's all social plan; For, though no Briton, Mungo isa man.
ask for mercy &c v.; supplicate &c (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions; beseech &c (ask) 765; say one's prayers, tell one's beads.
to supplicate you."
The Vestale is terrified and supplicates him to retire: in vain; and after a long but ineffectual struggle she sinks into his arms at the foot of the altar.
The soul is grieved, and supplicates the Supreme Being to spare it that painful trial, in which it only sees sorrow and affliction.
And where is the degree of vice or immorality which shall deprive the citizen of the right to supplicate for a boon, or to pray for mercy!
The great, 'tis true, can charm the electing tribe, The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe.
where'er the pilferer comes beware, She supplicates a vote, and steals a heart.
supplicate himhe is kind."
In what manner can he supplicate that omnipotent Being in his affliction with reverence, whom in the tide of his prosperity he never remembered with dread!
He was a man who might have been ten years her senior, with a keen soldier face, small well-marked features, a carefully trimmed black moustache, and a dark hazel eye which might harden to command a man, or soften to supplicate a woman, and be successful at either.
They seemed to wail, to supplicate, to combat, to menace, to sink in despairing pauses of helpless anguish, and anon to rise in stormy agonies of passionate importunity; and the monks quailed and trembled, they scarce knew why, with forebodings of coming wrath and judgment.
"I too might know the soft control Of one the longing heart could choose, With look which love illumes with soul The look that supplicates and woos.
And to-night he hesitated, and to-morrow, at the lifting of my finger, he will supplicate.
But, grant that it is a sacrifice; grant that it may be unwise; that it may be vain; I supplicate you to make it!
I, your child, who never deserted you, who will never desert you, pledging my faith to you in the face of heaven; for my sake, I supplicate you to make it.
A Trojan prince, seized by Achilles in the battle, falls at his feet, and in moving terms supplicates for life.
Though there was but little wind when we reached the lake, the Frenchmen hoisted their sail, in hopes to save themselves the labor of rowing across; but in vain did they whistle, with all the force of their lungsin vain did they supplicate La Vierge, with a comical mixture of fun and reverence.
And where is the degree of vice or immorality which shall deprive the citizen of the right to supplicate for a boon, or to pray for mercy?