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Definition of Obsecrate
1. v. t. To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.
Definition of Obsecrate
1. Verb. (transitive) To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. ¹
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Definition of Obsecrate
1. [v -CRATED, -CRATING, -CRATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsecrate
Literary usage of Obsecrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"I obsecrate ye with all courtesy, omitting compliment, you would vouch or deign
to proceed. FRIAR. Deign, vouch, protract, compliment, ..."
2. Anglistische Forschungen (1906)
"I obsecrate ye with all courtesy, omitting compliment, you would vouch or doing
to proceed. Friar. Deign, vouch, protract, compliment, ..."
3. Five Old Plays: Forming a Supplement to the Collections of Dodsley and Others by Thomas Hughes, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Nathan Field, Robert Dodsley, John Payne Collier (1833)
"I obsecrate ye with all courtesy, omitting compliment, you would vouch, ...
Deign, vouch, protract, compliment, obsecrate! Why, good-man tricks, ..."
4. The Works of William Smith, D. D.: Late Provost of the College and Academy by William Smith (1803)
"... the irresistible command of Nature constrains them to prostrate themselves in
the dust, to deprecate the impending evil, and to obsecrate the wished-for ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, Henry Morley (1885)
"But I obsecrate that in the interim you would, by a proper secession, facilitate
my enjoyment of the light, whilst I, by the fortuitous liquefaction of ..."
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