supplicantn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈsʌplᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈsəpləkənt/

Forms: late Middle English– supplicant, 1600s suplicant; also Scottish pre-1700 suplicaint, pre-1700 suplicant.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin supplicant-, supplicāns, supplicāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin supplicant-, supplicāns, present participle of supplicāre supplicate v. With the use as noun compare post-classical Latin supplicans suppliant, petitioner (15th cent. in British sources; 1636 (in the Laudian Statutes of the University of Oxford, the source translated in quot. 1845) or earlier in sense A. b), and compare also earlier suppliant n. and supplicationer n. at supplication n. Derivatives. Compare Spanish suplicante (14th cent. as adjective and noun), Portuguese suplicante (15th cent. as adjective and noun), Italian supplicante (c1400 as noun, 1516 as adjective).

A. n.

a. A person who makes a humble or earnest plea to another, esp. to a person in power or authority; a petitioner, a suppliant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals

beseecher1382

petitioner1414

suitor1414

orator1417

suppliantc1422

supplicant1475

soliciter1536

solicitor1551

oratricle1574

pleader1584

supplicationer1585

beggar1589

incaller?1591

supplicator1593

petitor1596

beadsman1600

impetrator1605

implorer1611

imploratora1616

replicant1622

invokera1649

prostrate1648

deprecator1656

appellant1704

memorialist1706

applicationer1710

postulant1733

invocant1751

solicitant1821

petitionist1822

memorializer1859

1475 Early Chancery Proceeding (P.R.O.: C 1/47/76) Your supplicant prouyded a Prest..Wherfor the seid Priour of malice ageyn trought and consciens hath affermed a pleynt of trespas ayenst your seid supplicant.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande 6/1 in Chron. I We are become to craue of Irelande, as humble supplicantes that neuer beefore this present haue so embased our selues to any other nation.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxiv. 53 The Prince and people of Nineueh assembling themselues as a maine army of supplicants.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 491 The supplicants gave in a Supplication to his Majestie's Commissioners for a free Generall Assemblie and Parliaments.

1693 W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers II. 109 The Third Rank of Catechumens was, that of those that were present at the Prayers, who were called the Supplicants or the Prostrati.

1720 A. Ramsay Poems 330 And cantily Your supplicant shall sing.

1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vi. 184 The pious supplicants, who repair to the churches.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxix. 456 The supplicants treated the king's person with great reverence.

1928 D. Barnes Ryder xli. 232 I am all charity an the supplicant be truly tattered to the skin and the skin well parched.

2000 Church Times 22 Dec. 17/2 Supplicants wanted to see, touch, crawl beneath, even kiss holy bones, as well as to create contact relics from the remains.

b. Oxford University. A person who supplicates for a degree or for incorporation (cf. incorporate v. 3b). Cf. supplicate v. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > presenting or petitioning for degree > person who

supplicant1649

promoter1699

promotorc1715

1649 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 6 Ther was 12 [scholars] in euery colledge, and two supplicants laureat.

1845 G. R. M. Ward tr. Statutes Archbp. Laud for Univ. Oxf., 1636 in Oxf. Univ. Statutes I. 100 Then the grace shall be deemed to be refused, and the supplicant disabled from supplicating again for a whole year [L. et qui supplicavit, per Annum integrum ad denuo supplicandum inhabilis reddetur].

1901 H. Rashdall & R. S. Rait New College, Oxf. 220 When a Fellow of New College takes any degree, his name is omitted from the list of supplicants.

1991 Guardian (Nexis) 4 June The Oxford curriculum remains almost exclusively exam orientated and continues to put its supplicants though all manner of petty indignities in the name of tradition.

B. adj.

= suppliant adj.¹

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requesting or petitioning

askingOE

petitor1453

supplicatoryc1475

suppliant1550

entreating1566

placitatory1569

petitory1576

supplicant1577

suing1581

pleading1594

entreatful1596

conjuring1597

entreative1598

supplicative1601

petitionary1604

precatory1610

supplicating1612

petitioning1615

postulatorya1631

eucticala1638

obsecratory1645

placitory1651

imploring1655

precative1662

beseeching1704

obsecrationary1829

imploratory1832

suppliant-like1837

solicitive1865

solicitant1886

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. ii. sig. Bbb.iiii^v/2 Penitents doe not stande in defence of their sinnes, but make their supplicant apologie to God, to haue them remitted.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 16 One did write this supplicant verse to the Emperour.

1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. L^v All these hearts that doe on mine depend,..supplicant their sighes to you extend.

1705 G. Bull Corrupt. Church Rome iii. 268 [They] offer'd to this Council their Letters supplicant, confessing that they had sinn'd.

1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 259 Pricking up the ears when anxious,..depressing them when supplicant.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 76 A sovereign supplicant with lifted hands.

1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. iii. 85 The supplicant people.

1920 Poetry Nov. 76 Holding out supplicant hands.

1998 Australian 13 May (Brisbane ed.) 28/2 Supplicant beggars with outstretched hands and bowed head or despairing faces with longing eyes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	supplicant
释义	supplicantn.adj. Brit. /ˈsʌplᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈsəpləkənt/ Forms: late Middle English– supplicant, 1600s suplicant; also Scottish pre-1700 suplicaint, pre-1700 suplicant. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin supplicant-, supplicāns, supplicāre. Etymology: < classical Latin supplicant-, supplicāns, present participle of supplicāre supplicate v. With the use as noun compare post-classical Latin supplicans suppliant, petitioner (15th cent. in British sources; 1636 (in the Laudian Statutes of the University of Oxford, the source translated in quot. 1845) or earlier in sense A. b), and compare also earlier suppliant n. and supplicationer n. at supplication n. Derivatives. Compare Spanish suplicante (14th cent. as adjective and noun), Portuguese suplicante (15th cent. as adjective and noun), Italian supplicante (c1400 as noun, 1516 as adjective). A. n. a. A person who makes a humble or earnest plea to another, esp. to a person in power or authority; a petitioner, a suppliant. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals beseecher1382 petitioner1414 suitor1414 orator1417 suppliantc1422 supplicant1475 soliciter1536 solicitor1551 oratricle1574 pleader1584 supplicationer1585 beggar1589 incaller?1591 supplicator1593 petitor1596 beadsman1600 impetrator1605 implorer1611 imploratora1616 replicant1622 invokera1649 prostrate1648 deprecator1656 appellant1704 memorialist1706 applicationer1710 postulant1733 invocant1751 solicitant1821 petitionist1822 memorializer1859 1475 Early Chancery Proceeding (P.R.O.: C 1/47/76) Your supplicant prouyded a Prest..Wherfor the seid Priour of malice ageyn trought and consciens hath affermed a pleynt of trespas ayenst your seid supplicant. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande 6/1 in Chron. I We are become to craue of Irelande, as humble supplicantes that neuer beefore this present haue so embased our selues to any other nation. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxiv. 53 The Prince and people of Nineueh assembling themselues as a maine army of supplicants. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 491 The supplicants gave in a Supplication to his Majestie's Commissioners for a free Generall Assemblie and Parliaments. 1693 W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers II. 109 The Third Rank of Catechumens was, that of those that were present at the Prayers, who were called the Supplicants or the Prostrati. 1720 A. Ramsay Poems 330 And cantily Your supplicant shall sing. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vi. 184 The pious supplicants, who repair to the churches. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxix. 456 The supplicants treated the king's person with great reverence. 1928 D. Barnes Ryder xli. 232 I am all charity an the supplicant be truly tattered to the skin and the skin well parched. 2000 Church Times 22 Dec. 17/2 Supplicants wanted to see, touch, crawl beneath, even kiss holy bones, as well as to create contact relics from the remains. b. Oxford University. A person who supplicates for a degree or for incorporation (cf. incorporate v. 3b). Cf. supplicate v. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > presenting or petitioning for degree > person who supplicant1649 promoter1699 promotorc1715 1649 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 6 Ther was 12 [scholars] in euery colledge, and two supplicants laureat. 1845 G. R. M. Ward tr. Statutes Archbp. Laud for Univ. Oxf., 1636 in Oxf. Univ. Statutes I. 100 Then the grace shall be deemed to be refused, and the supplicant disabled from supplicating again for a whole year [L. et qui supplicavit, per Annum integrum ad denuo supplicandum inhabilis reddetur]. 1901 H. Rashdall & R. S. Rait New College, Oxf. 220 When a Fellow of New College takes any degree, his name is omitted from the list of supplicants. 1991 Guardian (Nexis) 4 June The Oxford curriculum remains almost exclusively exam orientated and continues to put its supplicants though all manner of petty indignities in the name of tradition. B. adj. = suppliant adj.¹ ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requesting or petitioning askingOE petitor1453 supplicatoryc1475 suppliant1550 entreating1566 placitatory1569 petitory1576 supplicant1577 suing1581 pleading1594 entreatful1596 conjuring1597 entreative1598 supplicative1601 petitionary1604 precatory1610 supplicating1612 petitioning1615 postulatorya1631 eucticala1638 obsecratory1645 placitory1651 imploring1655 precative1662 beseeching1704 obsecrationary1829 imploratory1832 suppliant-like1837 solicitive1865 solicitant1886 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. ii. sig. Bbb.iiii^v/2 Penitents doe not stande in defence of their sinnes, but make their supplicant apologie to God, to haue them remitted. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 16 One did write this supplicant verse to the Emperour. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. L^v All these hearts that doe on mine depend,..supplicant their sighes to you extend. 1705 G. Bull Corrupt. Church Rome iii. 268 [They] offer'd to this Council their Letters supplicant, confessing that they had sinn'd. 1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 259 Pricking up the ears when anxious,..depressing them when supplicant. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 76 A sovereign supplicant with lifted hands. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. iii. 85 The supplicant people. 1920 Poetry Nov. 76 Holding out supplicant hands. 1998 Australian 13 May (Brisbane ed.) 28/2 Supplicant beggars with outstretched hands and bowed head or despairing faces with longing eyes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1475
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