intransitive. To make supplication or earnest request; to ask. archaic.

intransitive. With for. To offer a prayer on behalf of. Also: to make an earnest or formal petition; esp. to ask God or a god for something, to…

intransitive. gen. To make an earnest appeal, entreaty, or supplication; to beg, implore. Frequently with against, for, or with. Also figurative.

intransitive. gen. To make one's suit; to entreat, plead; to sue for. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use).

intransitive. To utter touching supplications; const. for (a thing), of (a person).

intransitive. To plead strongly or thoroughly.

intransitive. To appeal, plead, beg.

transferred. To ask as a favour or act of grace; hence to ask humbly, earnestly, supplicatingly; to… absol. or intransitive; with same const.

intransitive. To pray; to plead. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To bear witness, ‘testify’, make a solemn appeal or protest. Obsolete.

absol. To make supplication. Obsolete.

absol. or intransitive. To pray; to invoke evil. Obsolete.

intransitive. (a) To make supplication or entreaty; to beseech or implore; to plead with a person. (b) To call heaven to witness; to protest against.

intransitive. Scottish. To beg, entreat; to plead with.

intransitive. To use special pleading or sophistical argument.

transitive and intransitive = plead, v.