supplicate

Namo Buddha, I supplicate the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the three times and ten directions to bestow Their blessings upon Your Majesties.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023

“All the statements from Kirill are constantly, ‘Let’s do things peacefully, lets pray and supplicate.’

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

And if it would help to fall at her feet and supplicate myself, I would.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2019

So dire was Britain's economic predicament that it had been humiliatingly obliged to supplicate for a loan from the International Monetary Fund.

From US News ● Jul. 14, 2016

Before besieging a city, the Romans were accustomed to supplicate the presiding deities of that city.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Mr. Public supplicates the Cabman to return to his Stand, to charge a Shilling a Mile, and all shall be forgotten!

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

He was then the son who despairingly lies at the feet of his father, or the faithful servant who supplicates his prince.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

He remembers you and all the N.S.A. members in his prayers most lovingly, and supplicates for your success and that strength may be given you to discharge your many important duties.

From Unfolding Destiny by Shoghi Effendi

Therefore, this prisoner implores and supplicates at dawn, seeking strength and confirmation for the beloved of that town.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

He supplicates his nobles in the disaffected provinces to meet him at Mayence; but his earnest prayers are disregarded.

From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by George Henry Miles

A lama supplicated the heavenly waters by burning incense before an altar for three days.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Brain,” she supplicated faintly, “Brain, do you hear me?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The mother on her knees, supplicated for spiritual influence to annihilate their sufferings by death, but the fiery-willed player still kept courage, “I will go on, I will hope against hope!!”

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville

She knelt, and supplicated for forgiveness, seeming to commune with his spirit on the spot where his poor frail body reposed in its narrow bed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey

But this year, the vibe once again seems to have shifted—this time, away from supplicating the reelected president.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

From noon to midnight, it is alive with the buzz of crowded restaurants, supplicating panhandlers, weaving motorcycles, and pushy vendors.

From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022

Her pattern of withholding attention kindled an anxious, supplicating affection in her daughter, and a lifelong taste, Sontag wrote in her diary, for “weak, unhappy, confused, charming women.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019

As I do them, moving my legs one way, my arms the other, bending and supplicating my spine, I can hear my sacral joints clicking, realigning, settling themselves, speaking to me.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018

“We won’t make any decisions until you get back from your trip,” Ma said with a supplicating note to her words.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu