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▪ I. † soˈlicit, n. Obs. rare.
Also 7 sollicite.
[f. the vb.]
An entreaty or solicitation.
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iii. 52 Frame your selfe To orderly solicits [1st fol. solicity], and be friended With aptnesse of the season. 1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman ii. 11 All his sollicites..not having force enough to shake the resolution of this Lady. a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 51, I remember your frequent sollicites gained a promise from me to compose you a prayer.
▪ II. † soˈlicit, a. Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 6 sol(l)yst, 6–7 solist(e, solicite.
[ad. L. sollicitus (sōlicitus), f. sollus whole, entire, + citus, pa. pple. of ciēre to put in motion. So Sp. and Pg. solicito, It. solli-, sollecito.]
1. Characterized by solicitude or care.
1513Douglas æneid viii. vii. 71, I the hecht All maner thing, wyth sollyst diligence. 1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings Ep. Ded. p. v, Episcopacie after the most exact and sollicite triall, is onely the crime [etc.].
2. Solicitous; anxious; careful. Also const. for, to (with inf.), etc.
α1533Bellenden Livy ii. i. (S.T.S.) I. 131 Brutus, seand þe pepill solist with þis suspicioun, callit þame to ane concioun. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 43 Riche kyng amphion vas verray solist to keip his scheip. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 253 He was verie soliste and kairful for his people. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 8 Why then..are ye solist what befall a senslesse carrion?
βc1535Fisher Wks. (E.E.T.S.) II. 431 Saint Paule..is veray solicite and carefull, lest the flocke of Christe shalbe corrupted by theyr heresies. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 307 The peple solicit and sair kairful for the state of the cuntrie. a1614J. Melvill Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 634 We are not solicite neithir cairfull in this mater. 1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 106 Who knoweth not how ambitious, factious, and discontented spirits, are most ingenious and solicite.
Hence † soˈlicitness. Sc. Obs.
1549Compl. Scotl. v. 32, I beleue that oure solistnes ande vane opinione vald altir. Ibid. xiii. 112 That ȝe gar ȝour solistnes of the deffens of ȝour comont veil preffer the solistnes of ȝour particular veil.
▪ III. solicit, v.|səˈlɪsɪt|
Forms: 5– solicit, 6 solycit (solucyt), solysset, 7 solissit (6–7 Sc. solist); 5–8 solicite, 6–7 solycite; 6–8 sollicite (6 -ycite), 7–8 sollicit.
[ad. OF. sol-, solliciter (mod.F. solliciter, = Prov. sollicitar, Sp. and Pg. solicitar, It. solli-, sollecitare), or ad. L. sollicitāre (sōl-), f. sollicitus: see prec.]
I. trans.
†1. To disturb, disquiet, trouble; to make anxious, fill with concern. Obs.
a1450tr. De Imitatione iii. l. 121 If it were so wiþ me, mannys drede shuld not so solicite me, ner þe dartes of wordes shuld not meve me. a1513Fabyan Chron. v. (1811) 106 He solycited so the lordes of Burgoyne, that some of them abhorred the crudelitie of that woman. c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 10 Hath any ill solicited thine ears Befall'n my Myrmidons? 1637–8in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 119 They may enjoy all y⊇ ground..in what manner they please; we desire no way to sollicite them. 1681Dryden Span. Friar iii. ii, But anxious Fears sollicit my weak Breast. 1719Young Revenge iv. i, How good in you, my lord, whom nations cares Solicit, and a world in arms obeys!
refl.c1685Great Frost 1683–4 17 Ye merchants, to Greenland now leave off your sailing, And for your train oyl yourselves never solicite. 1788New London Mag. 533 They..consider him as one that..never solicits himself about them.
2. a. To entreat or petition (a person) for, or to do, something; to urge, importune; to ask earnestly or persistently.
1530Palsgr. 725/1, I solycite one, I call upon him to remembre the seute I make to him, je solicite. 1548Geste Pr. Masse 116 He is reverenced and sollicited but as resident in heaven. 1612in Fortescue P. (Camden) 7 note, Hee hath soe confirmed mee in the assurance of your..readie assistance uppon all occasions, that I neede not any more solicite you therein. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) 3/2 In this privacy of life he was solicited and sent unto by many Princes, whose invitations..he refused. 1719in Sir J. Picton L'pool Rec. (1886) II. 79 The charge of solliciting the Government for the moneys. 1769Robertson Chas. V, v. Wks. 1813 V. 445 Henry had been soliciting the pope for some time, in order to obtain a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his queen. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi ii. (1869) 63 The injured priest, Chruses, solicits all the Achaioi, and most of all the two Atridai. Ibid., There is no sign that he solicited the army.
transf.1626Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xxi. i, Lebanon is now anew solicited for cedar trees.
b. Const. to with inf., or with that.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. i. (S.T.S.) I. 129 Brutus solistit þe pepill to mak þare solemne aithis, neuer to suffir ony kingis regne abone þame. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 302 The cities and townes of Germany are sollicited to accept the Interim. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xiii. (1674) 16 [He] did much solicite his Majesty that he might be admitted. 1676Ray Corr. (1848) 123, I have been lately solicited to reprint my Catalogue of English Plants. 1719Young Revenge i. i, Had I known this before,..I had not then solicited your father To add to my distress. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 411 He had been solicited to accept indulgences which scarcely any other heretic could by any solicitation obtain.
†c. spec. To beg (an advocate) to attend to a case. Obs.—1
1536in Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) App. 32 A Proctor must take sufficient instructions of his Clients, and keep every Court-day..; solicite and instruct his Advocates [etc.].
3. To incite or move, to induce or persuade, to some act of lawlessness or insubordination. Freq. const. to (with n. or inf.).
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Solicito, To solicite mens mindes and intice them with brybes. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 149 This done, he solliciteth to rebellion the Bishops, Nobilitie, and Commons of the Realme. 1600Holland Livy x. xxi. 366 The Vmbrians..were moued to revolt; and the Gaules also sollicited with great summes of mony. 1643Baker Chron., Jas. I, 134 With a purpose to solicite forreign Princes against the King. 1683Brit. Spec. 102 Boadicea..sollicited the Britains..to a Revolt. 1809Christian Blackstone's Comm. IV. 221 One Higgins was indicted..for having incited and solicited a servant to steal his master's property. 1835[see solicitation 2 d].
4. a. To incite, draw on, allure, by some specious representation or argument. (Cf. 5 b.)
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, v. iii. 190 Solicite Henry with her wonderous praise. Bethinke thee on her Vertues [etc.]. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. xv. 19 Though I sleepe, Yet is my mood soliciting their soules. 1609Bible (Douay) Deut. xxiv. 7 If any man be taken soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him.., he shal be slaine. [1773Gray Corr. (1843) 153 The said Solicitor (who seems to have solicited the house out of their senses).]
b. To court or beg the favour of (a woman), esp. with immoral intention.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 40 Therefore be gone, sollicit me no more. 1599― Much Ado ii. i. 70 Daughter, remember what I told you, if the Prince doe solicit you in that kinde, you know your answere. 1614Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 48 Perceiving..the other [Julia] againe to be solicited with witlesse and wanton Roysters. 1632High Commiss. Cases (Camden) 310 He sollicited Ellen Coalman the wife of Joseph Coleman to lye with her. 1712Steele Spect. No. 402 ⁋2 That my Mother, the most mercenary of all Women, is gained by this false Friend of my Husband to sollicit me for him.
c. To make immoral attempts upon.
1645Ordin. concerning Suspention fr. Lord's Supper 6 Any that shall solicite the chastity of any person. 1881Times 2 May 6/5 It appeared that..he had attempted to take familiarities with their maid-servant and solicited her chastity.
d. Of women: To accost and importune (men) for immoral purposes. More recently, also with a homosexual (or a pimp) as subj. Also absol.
1710Steele Tatler No. 201 ⁋1 There are those [women] who betray the Innocent of their own Sex, and sollicit the Lewd of ours. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 498 Means could easily be adopted to prevent soldiers being solicited by women. 1887Spectator 9 July 919/2 She was arrested by a constable, accused of soliciting gentlemen. 1956Act 4 & 5 Eliz. II c. 69 §32 Solicitation by men. It is an offence for a man persistently to solicit or importune in a public place for immoral purposes. 1962Law Rep. 13 Mar. 666 The appeal of the appellant..against his conviction..that he, being a man, persistently solicited in a public place for immoral purposes..contrary to s. 32 of the Sexual Offences Act, 1956. 1983J. Gardner Elephants in Attic xvii. 153 She was soliciting to cover her air fare.
5. Of things:
a. To affect (a person or thing) by some form of physical influence or attraction. Now rare.
(a)1601Holland Pliny xxxi. vii, Not onely we men are sollicited and moved by salt more than by any thing else to our meat. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. ii. 26 That the Excrements may be the longer detained,..and that we may not every foot be sollicited to go to stool.
(b)1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. (1686) 63 Glass commonly excoriates the parts through which it passeth and solicits them unto a continual expulsion. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 567 Then gently sleep sollicited each eye. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. (1695) 43 Sounds and some tangible Qualities fail not to sollicite their proper Senses, and force an entrance to the Mind. 1829Chapters Phys. Sci. 17 Hardness is classed among the properties relative to certain forces soliciting or impelling bodies. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 285 All effects are the result of properties or susceptibilities in one thing, solicited by external contact with those of others.
b. To tempt, entice, allure; to attract or draw by enticement, etc. (Cf. 4.)
1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. x. (1687) 52 Did they not perpetually ingross your thoughts, and solicite your desires. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 743 That Fruit, which with desire..Sollicited her longing eye. 1759Johnson Idler No. 89 ⁋10 Innumerable delights sollicit our inclinations. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 39 The world around solicits his desire. 1817Chalmers Astron. Disc. ii. (1852) 49 He might have met with much to solicit his fancy, and tempt him to some devious speculation. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi x. (1869) 403 His early youth is not solicited into vice by finding sensual excess in vogue.
†6. To endeavor to draw out (a dart, etc.) by the use of gentle force. Obs.
1697Dryden æneid xii. 590 The fam'd physician..hastens to the wound. With gentle touches he performs his part, This way and that, soliciting the dart. 1718Pope Iliad xiii. 750 But good Agenor gently from the wound The spear sollicits. 1784Cowper Task iii. 115 With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth.
7. Med. To seek to draw, to induce or bring on, esp. by gentle means.
1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 376 One ought to solicit the Humours towards that Part. 1776T. Percival Ess. III. 266 The same remedies are also employed to solicit the gout to the extremities. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 151 He supposed it owing to an inflammatory tendency conveyed..to the intestines; there ‘soliciting excretions’. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 201 Such aperients..which act..by soliciting the peristaltic motion of the bowels. Ibid. IV. 380 But the action of the bowels must only be solicited, and by no means violently excited.
II.
8. †a. To conduct, manage, or attend to (business, affairs, etc.); to push forward or prosecute. Obs.
1429[see soliciting vbl. n.]. c1477Caxton Jason 61 b, They cam where as argos the maister patrone solicited the werk..of the ship. 1518Sel. Pl. Star Chamb. (Selden) II. 131 Wyllyam..went to..the Checker..to pay certeyn money and to solysset other materes that he had thear to doo. 1577Hanmer Eccl. Hist., Eusebius ix. ii, The author of all which mischiefe was Theotecnus, who solicited the cause, and egged them of Antioch forwards. 1627Lisander & Cal. iii. 47 She went unto Paris,..where she imployed a moneth more..in soliciting her husbands affaires. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §93 A Committee was come from the Parliament in Ireland, to sollicite Matters concerning that Kingdom. 1717Steele Epist. Corr. (1787) I. 186, I am going to Hampton-court, where the King now is, to solicit some matters relating to our commission. 1789C. Smith Ethelinde (1814) III. 75 To be employed in soliciting and managing the affairs of his son.
b. To conduct (a lawsuit, etc.) as a solicitor; to transact or negotiate in the capacity of a law-agent. ? Obs.
1606Act 3 Jas. I, c. vii, That none be suffered to Solicite any Cause or Causes in any of the Courts..but only..men of sufficient and honest disposition. 1671Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. §55 One Brabant, an Atturney at Law, (who had heretofore sollicited the great Suit against Sr Richard in the Star-Chamber). 1761Ann. Reg. ii. 37 A law-suit,..which he solicited so effectually that it was concluded greatly to the..advantage of the duke. 1839Morning Herald 3 June, The attorney-at-law who solicited the suits.
†c. To stir up, instigate (rebellion, etc.). Obs.—1
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 262 It is now plaine, that they had then plotted in their harts a shamefull rebellion, which they did sollicite.
†9.
a. To urge or plead (one's suit, cause, etc.).
a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 188 Then began bothe noble men and other..to make earnest sewte to Mayster Cromwell for to solicite ther causes to my lord, to gett of hyme his confirmacions. 1577in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 75 Therfore as yow tender his healthe, I pray yow sollicite the matter to my Lord Treasourer. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. i. 120 But would you vndertake another suite I had rather heare you to solicit that Then Musicke from the spheares. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) I. xxxi. 447 God and Nature therefore within us do solicite the poor⁓man's case. 1769Goldsm. Hist. Rome (1786) I. 424 It was in vain that this great man [Cicero] went up and down the city, soliciting his cause in the habit of a suppliant.
†b. To urge or press (a matter). Obs.
c1610J. Keymor Obs. Dutch Fishing (1664) 2 Since I sollicited this to have 200. Busses built for England, the Hollanders have made 800. new Busses more. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 424 He seemed to receive some satisfaction,..and therefore forbore a while to solicite this point. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 116 Haggai earnestly exhorts the People of God, to the building of the Temple. Ibid., Zechariah..also solicited the re-building of the Temple.
†c. To seek or follow diligently. Obs.—1
1658Franck North. Mem. (1821) 29 All that sollicit thy paths of peace shall be found in their duty as by wisdom directed.
10. a. To request, petition, or sue for (some thing, favour, etc.); to desire or seek by petition.
1595Daniel Civil Wars i. lxxxvi, Who faile not to aduise the Duke with speed, Solliciting to what he soone agreed. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 54 Who make so many journeys to sollicit their licence. 1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer v. i, Free. Give you a Ship! why, you will not solicit it. Man. If I have not solicited it by my services, I know no other way. a1700Evelyn Diary 27 Oct. 1675, To..solicite supplies from the Lord Treasurer. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 157 ⁋5 My acquaintance was solicited by innumerable invitations. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i, Even if she were not averse to his suit, how could he solicit her hand? 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. 325 Nabis..sent Pythagoras to solicit an interview with Flamininus. 1855Brewster Newton II. xix. 214 The object..seems to have been to solicit the favour of the Mogul to the English Company.
b. To seek after; to try to find, obtain, or acquire.
1717Pope Eloisa to Abelard 186, I..Repent old pleasures, and solicit new. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 149 ⁋11 They never suffer her to appear with them in any place where they solicit notice. 1784Cowper Task ii. 635 There we..Solicit pleasure, hopeless of success.
11. Of things: To call or ask for, to demand (action, attention, etc.).
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iv. iv. 127 Neuer hath it left my bloody hart, Soliciting remembrance of my vow. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 508 After our long perambulation of the Asian Continent, the sea inuironing doth sollicite our next endeuours. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 191 All which incomparable Inventions do not only solicite, but..should inflame our endevours to attempt even Impossibilities. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India v. vii. II. 613 The formation of a new government solicited his attention. Ibid. ix. 694 The affairs and government of India solicited the utmost exertions of their abilities.
III. intr. (See also 4 d.)
12. a. To make request or petition; to beg or entreat.
1509in Mem. Hen. VII (Rolls) 432 Notwythstandeyng that I..have solucytyd unto the kynge and unto hys secretary Almasan..that the sayd ambassatur myȝghte be namyd. 1529Lyndesay Compl. 53 Had I solistit,..My rewarde had nocht bene to craif. 1608Shakes. Per. ii. v. 69 Resolve your angry father, if my tongue Did e'er solicit. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 12 They could not then expect that the French should sollicite in their behalf as they had done before. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ix. 395 Whilst they were thus solliciting. 1796E. Hamilton Lett. Hindoo Rajah (1811) I. 247 Too modest to solicit, and too proud to bear the harshness of repulse. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. ii. v, Now too behold..American Plenipotentiaries, here in person soliciting.
b. Const. for.
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iv. i, All the Saintes doe sit soliciting For vengeance. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 28 If you bethinke your selfe of..Grace, Solicite for it straight. a1700Evelyn Diary 9 July 1665, I went to Hampton Court..to solicite for mony. 1769Goldsm. Hist. Rome (1786) I. 338 Metellus..was obliged to solicit at Rome for a continuation of his command. 1802M. Moore Lascelles II. 49 It was Lascelles' excessive delicacy..which made him not solicit for the purse from Serena. 1808E. Sleath Bristol Heiress III. 210 She received several messages from young Benson, soliciting for an interview.
c. Const. to and inf.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 794, I solicite to be the miserablest of men, to preserve you from being the unjustest. 1710Swift Lett. (1767) III. 65, I was soliciting this day, to present the bishop of Clogher Vice-Chancellor. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. lvii. (1783) II. 174, I sat by his bed-side, and gently sollicited to learn the cause of this strange disaster. c1800R. Cumberland John De Lancaster (1809) III. 85 Devereux himself solicits to go with me. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 98 The accounts..represented Ferdinand as still soliciting to be adopted by marriage into the family of the tyrant.
13. To act or practise as a solicitor.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 83 His mother may haue su'd in forma pauperis, but he neuer sollicited in form of papers in the Arches in his life. 1681Trial of S. Colledge 5 No body can solicit for any one that is under an Accusation of High-Treason, unless he be assigned so to do by the Court. 1714French Bk. Rates 13 We have appointed a Person to receive all their Petitions, and solicite for them at our Expence. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. i. Wks. 1761 III. 20 We are at a great distance from the King's Court, and have no body there to solicit for us.
†14. To petition against, to make intercession for, a person or thing. Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) 1 Macc. x. 61 There assembled agaynst him pestilent men of Israel, wicked men soliciting against him. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 12. 463 Though many things solicite for these lusts,..yet a Christian man must still stand out in the deniall of them. 1697Collier Ess. Moral Subj. ii. To Rdr., Some Authors (I am sorry it may be said so) seem to solicit for Vice. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xi. 453 What your mother and sister are now solliciting against in favor of the children. |
