request

Roget-categorie 765

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.7. Special intersocial volition
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#765. Request

zelfstandig naamwoord

request, requisition — claim etc. (demand) 741 — petition, suit, prayer — begging letter, round robin.
motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe — imprecation — rogation — proposal, proposition.
orison etc. (worship) 990 — incantation etc. (spell) 993.
mendicancy — asking, begging etc. v. — postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration^†, imploration^†, obsecration^†, obtestation^†, invocation, interpellation.

werkwoord

request, ask — beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask — beg leave, beg a boon — apply to, call to, put to — call upon, call for — make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition — make application, make a requisition — ask trouble, ask one for — claim etc. (demand) 741 — offer up prayers etc. (worship) 990 — whistle for.
beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore — conjure, adjure — obtest^† — cry to, kneel to, appeal to — invoke, evoke — impetrate^†, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for — cry aloud, cry for help — fall on one's knees — throw oneself at the feet of — come down on one's marrowbones.
beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging — mendicate^†, mump^†, cadge, beg one's bread.
dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.
bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court — seek, bid for etc. (offer) 763 — publish the banns.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

requesting etc. v. — precatory^† — suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory — postulant — obsecratory^†.
importunate, clamorous, urgent — cap in hand — on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.

bijwoord

prithee, do, please, pray — be so good as, be good enough — have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.

tussenwerpsel

for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!,

uitdrukking

Dieu vous garde [Fr.] — dirigenos Domine [Lat.] — would you be so kind as to.

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