solicitate

English

Etymology

solicit +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈlɪsɪtət/

Adjective

solicitate (comparative more solicitate, superlative most solicitate)

1. (obsolete) solicitous
   • 1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World:

     who by them beinge aduertyſed hereof, beganne to caste theyr wyttes what this thyng might meane : beinge no leſſe ſolicitate for them ſelues, then meditatynge in what daunger theyr felowes had byn

Verb

solicitate (third-person singular simple present solicitates, present participle solicitating, simple past and past participle solicitated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To solicit.
   • 1969, Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland), Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, ... (page 184)

     […] to solicitate the relief of Sir Robert Kerr and Buccleuch's son […]

References

“solicitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Spanish

Verb

solicitate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of solicitar combined with te