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Solicit

verb

(past & past part. solicited; pres. part. soliciting)

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently. Synonyms: beg, tap. "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

Make amorous advances towards. Synonyms: court, romance, woo.

Approach with an offer of sexual favors. Synonyms: accost, hook. "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

Incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination.

Make a solicitation or petition for something desired.

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"Solicit" Quotes from Famous Books

... commenced at Serampore in 1793. The English Baptists were just awakening to a sense of their responsibility for the conversion of the world, when Dr. Thomas arrived in London, to solicit missionary aid for Hindoostan. The society took him under their patronage, and sent him back in company with Dr. Cary. After laboring successfully in various places, in 1800 Dr. Cary removed to Serampore, which thenceforward became ...

— The Book of Religions • John Hayward

... witnesses of a remarkable incident in connection with a boiling topic of current scandal,—glaringly illustrative of it, moreover,—were unlikely to keep close tongues, even if they had been sworn to secresy. Fleetwood knew it, and he scorned to solicit them; an exaction of their idle vows would be merely the humiliation of himself. So he tossed his dignity to recklessness, as the ultraconvivial give the last wink of reason to the wine-cup. Persecuted as he was, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... exciting circumstances attending the engagement of Amshar, the guide of Mrs. Falchion's party. Among a score of claimants, Amshar had had one particular opponent—a personal enemy—who would not desist even when the choice had been made. He, indeed, had been the first to solicit the party, and was rejected because of his disagreeable looks. He had even followed the trap from the Port of Aden. As one of the gentlemen was remarking on the muttered anger of the disappointed Arab, Mrs. Falchion. said: "There he is now at ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... consultation of a deity was often entailed with much ceremony. No doubt the priests did all in their power to add to the solemnity of such an occasion. The kings on their side showed their lavishness in furnishing victims for the sacrifice. Again and again does Esarhaddon solicit Shamash to reveal the outcome of the military campaigns in which the king was engaged. The same individual, Kashtariti, and the Gimirrites, Medes, etc., are mentioned in many other prayers prepared in the ...

— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow

... muley cow will turn from a manger filled with new-mown hay, and wear out her thievish tongue trying to coax a wisp of rotten straw through a crack in a neighbor's barn, so will man turn from consenting Venus' matchless charms to solicit scornful Dian. ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

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