ppl. a. [f. SUPPLICATE v. + -ING2.] That supplicates, or expresses supplication; humbly petitioning or entreating.

1

1649.  Milton, Eikon., iv. Wks. 1851, III. 362. As for that supplicating People they did no hurt either to Law or Authority.

2

1726.  Swift, Gulliver, III. i. I then put myself into the most supplicating postures, and spoke in the humblest accent.

3

1797.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, xvi. ‘Do not leave me,’ said she, in accents the most supplicating.

4

a. 1859.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiv. (1861), V. 177. A request made … in earnest and almost supplicating terms.

5

1880.  Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 72. She would not have listened … to a silly supplicating girl.

6

  Hence Supplicatingly adv.

7

1865.  Meredith, Rhoda Fleming, xliv. Rhoda … turned her eyes supplicatingly on Robert.

8

1884.  Goldsmid, Wright’s Pol. Songs, II. 45. Song of Lewes. Those whose aid he will ask supplicatingly.

9