1609 H. Ainsworth Def. Holy Script, Worship & Ministerie 15 Worship strictly taken..betokeneth a prostrating or supplicating vnto God.

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal ii. v. 44 The people apply themselves to all the Gods they could think or hear of..; whereupon the Ediles are charged to see to it, that they restrain those Supplicatings of strange Gods.

1726 C. Mather Ratio Disciplinæ: Acct. Discipline Churches New-Eng. iii. 54 The Singing of Psalms is a Supplicating of God himself, wherein by humble Prayer we beg the Pardon of our Sins.

1788 J. Lemprière Bibliotheca Classica at Leucŏthea To this supplicating for other people's children, Ovid alludes in these lines [etc.].

1849 F. M. F. Skene Use & Abuse xviii. 374 Drearily was she looking into her future life, whose great occupation was to be the supplicating of heaven for his sake.

1872 A. Webster Auspicious Day iv. i. 139 This [petition] I'll send, and add my supplicatings, to the king.

1906 Amer. Anthropologist 8 614 There follows the life of toil, in which..the supplicating of mysterious Forces, with their personification and propitiation, tends to deepen the emotional element.

1954 J. Fisher & R. M. Lockley Sea Birds xi. 230 This supplicating of the adults by immatures far from the breeding ground has given rise to the belief that the young bird remains attached to its parents long after the nesting season.

2005 E. Natanblut Seven against Thebes Myth in Greek Trag. viii. 108 Another feature in Septem that illustrates the religious and mystical casting of the myth is the supplicating of the gods' statues by the chorus.

1612 W. S. Funerall Elegye sig. C3^v If to a supplicating soule, it would Giue life a new, by giuing life againe Where life is mist.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 32 As for that supplicating People they did no hurt either to Law or Autority.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 13 I then put my self into the most supplicating Postures, and spoke in the humblest Accent.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. v. 165 ‘Do not leave me,’ said she in accents the most supplicating.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiv. 177 A request made..in earnest and almost supplicating terms.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. v. 89 She would not have listened..to a silly supplicating girl.

1913 J. Harmand Keeper of Royal Secrets iv. 207 It was a gentle, plaintive, supplicating letter.

1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere i. 10 Carty was shrinking into the background, making with supplicating eyes.

2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. c. 23 A supplicating Priam seems to reach forward for his son with every muscle in his body.

1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature 316 He surveyed her with the heavenliest glances; kissed her hand, then her lips: often, without warning, fell at her feet, and looked at her, dimplingly, supplicatingly.

1839 T. Wright tr. Battle of Lewes in Polit. Songs Eng. 119 Those whose aid he will ask supplicatingly.

1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xliv Rhoda..turned her eyes supplicatingly on Robert.

1908 Rosary Mag. June 641/2 He stood with his hands still supplicatingly outstretched towards the direction where she had disappeared.

2010 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 27 June f10 The prince supplicatingly courts Western companies and wields ruthless authoritarianism against an insurgent movement intent on preserving Galado's millennia-old traditional culture.