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Solicit

verb

(past & past part. solicited; pres. part. soliciting)

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently. Synonyms: beg, tap. "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

Make amorous advances towards. Synonyms: court, romance, woo.

Approach with an offer of sexual favors. Synonyms: accost, hook. "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

Incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination.

Make a solicitation or petition for something desired.

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... but Black Mustache's sinister face became more resolute. "If you wanted to live respectable, why did you solicit us two? Come along—or do you want me and Pete to take ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... out in pursuit of the Indians, he said: "But diffidence never permitted me to approach an officer's tent, or solicit any one ...

— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson

... Hervey, "that it (the victory of the court) cost the king but 900l.—500l. to one man, and 400l. to another; and that even those two sums were advanced to two men who were to have received them at the end of the session had this question never been moved, and who only took this opportunity to solicit prompt payment."[111] Lord Chesterfield, in the same letter in which he spoke of the corrupt influencing of elections as a high crime and misdemeanor, recommends the Earl of Marchmont to bribe "some of your venal peers" to confess that they took money to vote for the court.[112] ...

— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman

... the apparition at my bedside of a swarthy, wild-looking Afghan sowar—a messenger from the Wazir, to say that his Highness the Khan wished to make my acquaintance, and would receive me, if convenient, at three o'clock that afternoon. It had not been my intention to solicit an interview, for, from all accounts, the Khan is anything but friendly towards Europeans, Englishmen in particular. To refuse, however, was out of the question. The morning was therefore devoted to cleaning up, and getting out a decent suit of wearing-apparel; ...

— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt

... comes, in the first place, thou wilt be condemned to tell stories, how many men thou mightst have had; and none believe thee: Then thou growest forward, and impudently weariest all thy friends to solicit man ...

— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott

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