SOLICIT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Solicit

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/səlˈɪsɪt/ Listen

verb

Solicit v. t. (past & past part. solicited; pres. part. soliciting)

1.

To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms. "Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?"

2.

To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor. "I view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new."

3.

To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite. "That fruit... solicited her longing eye." "Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind."

4.

To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to. (Obs.) "Should My brother henceforth study to forget The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever Solicit thy deserts."

5.

To disturb; to disquiet; a Latinism rarely used. "Hath any ill solicited thine ears?" "But anxious fears solicit my weak breast."

Synonyms: Syn. To beseech; ask; request; crave; supplicate; entreat; beg; implore; importune. See Beseech.

See images of 'Solicit'

Etymology of 'Solicit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"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

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com