"sollicit" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sollicits",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solliciting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sollicited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sollicited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "solicit"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper:",
          "text": "PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128,\n[…] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]"
        }
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        "Obsolete spelling of solicit.."
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          "solicit#English"
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sollicit"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sollicits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solliciting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sollicited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sollicited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "solicit"
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        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper:",
          "text": "PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128,\n[…] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of solicit.."
      ],
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          "solicit#English"
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  "word": "sollicit"
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