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    supplicate

    supplicate - Dictionary definition and meaning for word supplicate

    Definition
    (verb) ask humbly (for something)
    Example Sentence
    • He supplicated the King for clemency
    Definition
    (verb) make a humble, earnest petition
    Example Sentence
    • supplicate for permission
    Definition
    (verb) ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
    Example Sentence
    • supplicate God's blessing
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for supplicate

if u SUPPLICATE God will SUPPLY

supplicate, suppliant, supple, supplicant are all related terms.

You have to write an 'Application' to ask something humbly.

imagine u go and ask some officer that the supply of goods is very late in an humble way hence supplicate=ask in an humble way ;

supplicate~supply+C+ate ; If you have eaten up all the supply of Chocolate you had at home you supplicate your mother to get some more from the market !

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supplicate, suppliant, supplicant = want supply, so ask humbly for it

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