a. Also 7 soll-. [f. L. sōl-, sollicitūdin-, stem of sollicitūdo SOLICITUDE.]
1. Filled with anxiety, care or concern. rare.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., I. § 33 (1716), 39. Move circumspectly not meticulously, and rather carefully sollicitous than anxiously sollicitudinous.
2. Characterized by solicitude or anxiety.
1829. Lytton, Disowned, I. iv. 76. Which he promised to prepare with the most solicitudinous dispatch, and the most dispatchful solicitude.
1900. Speaker, 7 April, 10/2. My enemies have given me this advice in a well-meaning, sneaking, solicitudinous kind of a fashion.
