Solicit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOLICIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to ask for earnestly
• ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone
• ask (someone) for something
• To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
• To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.
• To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.
• To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
• To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.
• make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
• make amorous advances towards
• approach with an offer of sexual favors
• incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination
• make a solicitation or petition for something desired
• request
• accost someone and offer one's or someone else's services as a prostitute

Words related to SOLICIT

brigue9 request16 solicitation14 solicitations15 solicited12 soliciting13 solicitings14 solicits10

Words that contain SOLICIT

solicits10 solicity13 solicited12 solicitor11 solicitant12 solicities12 soliciting13 solicitors12 solicitous12 solicitude13 solicitants13 solicitings14 solicitudes14 unsolicited14 solicitation14 solicitously17 unsolicitous14 solicitations15 solicitorship20 oversolicitous19 solicitorships21 solicitousness16 solicitousnesse17 solicitousnesses18

How to use SOLICIT in a sentence

• To such an extreme did he carry his oppression, that to escape from his violence, the people were induced to solicit other princes to come and take possession of the empire.
• Wilson almost entertain the romantic wish he might be found worthy and disposed to solicit the hand of Emily.
• Beyond that I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all.
• If the Prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.
• The Bishop of Kaminck, Kraminski, had gone to Versailles to solicit the support of France.
• Neither was it the principle or the practice of the Home ever to solicit a dollar.
• Such, indeed, is the extent of our undertaking, that it was necessary to solicit every information, to consult the living and the dead.
• I am of opinion this is the last visit I shall ever solicit from you.
• Their vows were very strict, for they were even forbidden to solicit alms.
• I am come to solicit his patronage in the matter of a pair of vases.
• Upon hearing of the death of his vice-provincial, father Fray Rodrigo de San Miguel became very eager to make his voyage to Espana to solicit new workers.
• I solicit the attention of the world to the foregoing part of Mr.
• We passed at an early hour a camp of Sioux on the north bank, who merely looked at us without saying a word, and from the character of the tribe we did not solicit a conversation.
• Their object was probably to solicit help against the attacks of Mohammedans.
• Ambassadors came from the interior parts of India, to congratulate Trajan on his successes, and solicit his friendship.
• Baylor, open, because I solicit your perusal of it.
• He chose to stay there three and a half longer, as he says, to solicit what was due to him.
• The people of Paris forced their prison, liberated them, and sent a deputation to the Assembly to solicit a pardon.
• I solicit the kind sympathy of the assembly on this point.
• Charity boys were large purchasers of these pieces, and at Christmas time used to take them round their parish to show, and, at the same time, solicit a trifle.
• He promised, however, to write to the man who held her, and solicit her release.
• They declared that every man who paid it should be deemed an enemy to his country, and sent over an agent to London to solicit the suppression of this imposition.
• I only come here to solicit you to give me a little rest.
• Radcliff had personally gone to Fort Abraham Lincoln to solicit help.
• Now, in accepting this position, I am going to ask each and every active member through his friends and acquaintances to solicit and secure twenty-five members.
• Thus in cases of dire necessity it was customary to solicit the favour of the saints by presenting prayers and offerings.
• Washington, who had returned to Mount Vernon ill and worn-out, was urged to solicit the command, but it was not his way to solicit, and he declined to do so now.
• In 1844 the society asked and obtained permission from the governor, the Count of Mirasol, to solicit subscriptions for the establishment and endowment of a central college.
• He went back to Spain two years afterwards to solicit permission to conquer the province of Maranion, in which enterprize he lost his life and all his property.
• Yet I am now envied, and thought in high favour, and have every day numbers of considerable men teasing me to solicit for them.
• But, as it happened, a new, or a revived, order of facts was just about to solicit scientific attention.
• It was an ancient custom among the heathen at their entrance on a war, to devote the enemy to destruction, and solicit their gods to forsake them.
• His first intention was to get a conveyance at the livery stable, his first impulse to solicit the co-operation of the town police.
• I shall solicit the continuance of his patience a little longer, or till I have made a few remarks of my own upon this subject.
• He had come here to solicit and collect the alms which his Majesty orders to be given to the fathers who labor in the Malucas Islands.

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