beseech
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan.
Pronunciation Verbbeseech (beseeches, present participle beseeching; simple past and past participle beseeched) (transitive)
- To beg or implore something of (a person).
- 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epistles, and Gospels, to be Used at the Celebracion of the Lordes Supper & Holye Communion, throughe the Yeare: With Proper Psalmes, and Lessons for Diuers Feastes and Dayes. [The Accencion Daie. Proper Psalms and Lessons.]”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC ↗, folio lxviii, recto ↗:
- [W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]
- 1748, [David Hume], Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC ↗:
- after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?
- 1887 March 25, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC ↗:
- She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC ↗:
- Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.
- To beg or request for (something).
- French: prier, implorer, supplier
- German: anflehen, ersuchen, bitten
- Italian: supplicare, implorare
- Portuguese: rogar, implorar
- Russian: умоля́ть
- Spanish: rogar, implorar, suplicar
beseech (plural beseeches)
- (archaic) A request.
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