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solicitate

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English

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Etymology

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From solicit +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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solicitate (comparative more solicitate, superlative most solicitate)

  1. (obsolete) solicitous
    • 1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World:
      who by them beinge aduertyſed hereof, beganne to caste theyr wyttes what this thyng might meane : beinge no leſſe ſolicitate for them ſelues, then meditatynge in what daunger theyr felowes had byn

Verb

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solicitate (third-person singular simple present solicitates, present participle solicitating, simple past and past participle solicitated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To solicit.
    • 1969, Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland), Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, ... (page 184)
      [] to solicitate the relief of Sir Robert Kerr and Buccleuch's son []

References

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solicitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Spanish

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Verb

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solicitate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of solicitar combined with te