Obs. nonce-wd. [L., = ‘we supplicate,’ 1st pers. pl. pres. indic. of supplicāre to SUPPLICATE: after legal terms such as mandamus, etc.] A petition, entreaty.
1574–5. G. Harvey, Mercy Harvey, Wks. (Grosart), III. 89. Swearing that she should haue any thing he had at commaundiment, and vse him as familiarly … as her owne brother; with a many such goodly supplicamussis.
