petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.
motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal,
apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.
orison &c (worship) 990; incantation &c (spell) 993.
mendicancy; asking, begging &c v.; postulation, solicitation,
invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration†,
imploration†, obsecration†, obtestation†, invocation, interpellation.
V. request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop
the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call
to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request,
prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer,
prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition,
prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a
requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim &c (demand) 741; offer up
prayers &c (worship) 990; whistle for.
beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure,
adjure; obtest†; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate†,
imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for;
cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet
of; come down on one's marrowbones.
beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging;
mendicate†, mump†, cadge, beg one's bread.
dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.
bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for &c
(offer) 763; publish the banns.
Adj. requesting &c v.; precatory†; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory;
postulant; obsecratory†.
importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on
one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.
Adv. prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the
goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
Int. for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for
mercy's sake!,
Phr. Dieu vous garde [Fr.]; dirigenos Domine [Lat.]; would you be so
kind as to.