See beseech in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "[1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iii, leaf 401r:",
"text": "Moost noble crysten Quene I byseche yow as ye haue ben euer my specyal good lady and I at al tymes your true poure knyghte vnto my power and as I neuer fayled yow in ryghte nor in wrong sythen the fyrst day kynge Arthur made me knyghte that ye wylle praye for my soule yf that I here be slayne;\n\"Most noble Christian queen, I beseech you as ye have been ever my special good lady, and I at all times your true poor knight unto my power, and as I never failed you in right nor in wrong sithen the first day King Arthur made me knight, that ye will pray for my soul if that I here be slain;\"",
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"ref": "1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epistles, and Gospels, to be Used at the Celebracion of the Lordes Supper & Holye Communion, throughe the Yeare: With Proper Psalmes, and Lessons for Diuers Feastes and Dayes. [The Accencion Daie. Proper Psalms and Lessons.]”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio lxviii, recto:",
"text": "[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]",
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"ref": "1748, [David Hume], Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?",
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"ref": "1887 March 25, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC:",
"text": "She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.",
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"ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.",
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"text": "[King Knight defeats the Troupple King.] / Troupple Acolyte: 'HALT! I BESEECH THEE! PLEASE, NO MORE!'",
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"word": "eitloa"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bønnfalle"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "trygle"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "be"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "prachren"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "błagać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "rogar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implorar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implora"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umoljátʹ",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "умоля́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "preklinjati"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "doprosovať sa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "rogar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implorar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "suplicar"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "kuomba"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "kusihi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bönfalla"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bekön"
}
],
"word": "beseech"
}
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"2": "enm",
"3": "besechen"
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"name": "inh"
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"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "bezoeken",
"t": "to visit, attend, see"
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"expansion": "Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "besuchen",
"t": "to visit, attend, see"
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"expansion": "German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”)",
"name": "cog"
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"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "besöka",
"t": "to visit, go to see"
},
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}
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"ref": "1617, pseudo-Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or the Bloody Brother, act IV, scene III:",
"text": "Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]",
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"A request."
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"(archaic) A request."
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"word": "beseek"
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