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solicitation|səlɪsɪˈteɪʃən|
Forms: α. Sc. 5–6 solistatioun (6 -acioun), 6–7 -ation, 6 solyst-, sollistatioun. β. 6–7 sollicitac(i)on, 6–8 -ation (6 -atioun); 6 solicitacion, solyssetacion, 7 solissitation, 7– solicitation.
[a. OF. sol-, sollicitation (mod.F. sollicitation, = Sp. solicitacion, Pg. solicitação, It. solle-, sollicitazione), or ad. L. sōl-, sollicitātio: see solicit v. and -ation.]
†1. Management, transaction, or pursuit of business, legal affairs, etc. Obs.
1492Acta Dom. Concilii 250/1 Þe Soume of fiftj merkis..auch to him..for solistatioun of thar errandis þe tyme he wes alderman of þe said toun. 1529in Burnet Hist. Ref. i. ii. Rec. xxii. (1679) 54 So as ye may be sure to have of him effectual concurrence and advice in the furtherance and sollicitation of your Charges. 1642Harcourt in Macm. Mag. XLV. 289, I presume you are now very bussee in the solissitation of my law bussines. 1722in Westm. Gaz. (1906) 27 Aug. 2/3 To undertake the Sollicitation and Management of any Affairs which may come before either House.
2. The action of soliciting, or seeking to obtain by earnest request; entreaty, petition, diligent or importunate asking.
α1533Bellenden Livy i. xv. (S.T.S.) I. 82 Numa havand na cognossance of Rome,..was chosin but ony his solistacioun, and maid king. 1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 160 To the effect oure Soverane Lady be nocht molestit with importunite, solistatioun, and requeist. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 221 He was upon great moyen and solistation inlarged, but verie shortlie after he departed this life.
β1533Bellenden Livy v. vi. (S.T.S.) II. 167 Þai þat war movit be requiest or sollicitatioun of tribunys militare. 1588Lambarde Eiren. iv. vii. 514 At the sollicitation and by the meanes of some parties grieued. 1622Williams in Fortescue P. (Camden) 173 By the sollicitacion of Sir Edw. Cooke I forbore..to doe any thing herein. 1697Luttrell Brief Relat. (1857) IV. 296 Great sollicitation has been used for the two latter to change their sentence from death to transportation. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 160 ⁋2 [Patrons] are sometimes corrupted by Avarice, and sometimes cheated by Credulity, sometimes overpowered by resistless Solicitation. 1780Mirror No. 71, After two years solicitation..Antonio gave up all hopes of success. 1836Sir H. Taylor Statesman xxiii. 167 A spirit of justice, ears shut against private solicitation, ought to be regarded as essential qualifications..for the office of private secretary. 1883Law Rep. 23 Chanc. Div. 722 At her solicitation the trustee lent the fund to the husband and it was lost.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lvii. 2 Be dyuers..operatiounis Men makis in court thair solistationis. 1596Earl of Essex in Ellis Orig. Lett. 3rd Ser. IV. 131 His sollicitacons and guifts, offered to the rebells of Irland. 1625in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1909) III. 59 Our owne peticions, sollicitations, and complaintes. 1671Milton Samson 488 Spare that proposal, Father, spare the trouble Of that sollicitation. 1769Junius Lett. xxv. (1780) 140 Your solicitations..were renewed under another administration. 1836J. Martin Discourses iv. 121 Without one solicitation on the part of the conquered, peace is offered. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. 689 In spite of his master's personal solicitations Churchill remained true to Protestantism.
c. The action of soliciting a person of the other sex (cf. solicit v. 4 b and 4 d).
1604Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 202 If she will returne me my Iewels, I will giue ouer my Suit, and repent my vnlawfull solicitation. a1639T. Carew Upon Sickness of E. S. 19 Shee Who hath preserv'd her spotless chastity From all solicitation. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iii. i, She cannot be free from the insolent Sollicitations of such Fellows as you are, Sir. 1781E. Inchbald I'll tell you what iii. ii, He had just seen the most beautiful girl his eyes ever beheld, to whom he had given a look of solicitation. 1848Dickens Dombey liv, From my marriage day I found my⁓self exposed..to such solicitation and pursuit..from one mean villain. 1887[see solicitee].
d. Law. (See quot. and solicit v. 3.)
1835Tomlins Law Dict., Solicitations. It is an indictable offence to solicit and incite another to commit a felony.
3. The exertion or operation of a physically attracting influence or force.
1626Bacon Sylva §836 By Excitation and Solicitation of the Body Putrified, and the Parts thereof, by the Body Ambient. 1833Herschel Astron. viii. 266 Be it pressure from without or the resultant of many pressures or sollicitations of unknown fluids. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) II. 67 The ‘solicitations of gravity’. 1884N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 115 The solicitations of Jupiter's attractive force are as urgent on a swiftly rushing body as on one at rest.
4. The action of some attractive, enticing, or alluring influence.
1676Hale Contempl. ii. Medit. Lord's Prayer 153 In these the Objects were innocent, and had in themselves no active solicitation to Evil. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. §8 Children..are surrounded with a world of new things, which, by a constant Sollicitation of their Senses, draw the Mind constantly to them. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 32 She was..a common mercenary prostitute, and that without any sollicitation from nature. 1758Johnson Idler No. 25 ⁋10 Vicious sollicitations of appetite, if not checked, will grow more importunate. a1820T. Brown Philos. Human Mind xcviii. IV. 561 The duty that is exercised in resisting the solicitations of evils. 1884Sully Outl. Psychol. iv. 99 The power of sustained attention grows with the ability to resist distractions and solicitations.
†5. Anxiety; solicitude. Obs.
1697Clayton Acc. Virginia in Misc. Curiosa (1708) III. 297 If..their Heards are stray'd from their Plantations, without more sollicitation they go directly to the Rivers to fetch them home again. a1718W. Penn in Life Wks. I. 135 Whom I ever served with a steady Sollicitation. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Water, This comes so little..into our Diet..that it is not worth much Sollicitation about it.
Hence soliciˈtationism.
1880W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country iii. 52 What I wish now to establish as the central principle of the spiritistic science is the principle of solicitationism. |