Both Uses of
supplicate
in
Gulliver's Travels
- All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands together in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in: for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hateful animal, which we have a mind to destroy.†
Chpt 2
- I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(supplicate) ask humbly (for something)