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besought
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beseech \Be*seech"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besought; p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeching.] [OE. bisechen, biseken (akin to G. besuchen to visit); pref. be- + sechen, seken, to seek. See Seek.] 1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
I beseech you, punish me not with your hard
thoughts.
--Shak.
But Eve . . . besought his peace.
--Milton.
Syn: To beg; to crave.
Usage: To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. These words agree in marking that sense of want which leads men to beg some favor. To solicit is to make a request, with some degree of earnestness and repetition, of one whom we address as a superior. To entreat implies greater urgency, usually enforced by adducing reasons or arguments. To beseech is still stronger, and belongs rather to the language of poetry and imagination. To implore denotes increased fervor of entreaty, as addressed either to equals or superiors. To supplicate expresses the extreme of entreaty, and usually implies a state of deep humiliation. Thus, a captive supplicates a conqueror to spare his life. Men solicit by virtue of their interest with another; they entreat in the use of reasoning and strong representations; they beseech with importunate earnestness; they implore from a sense of overwhelming distress; they supplicate with a feeling of the most absolute inferiority and dependence.
Besought \Be*sought"\, p. p. of Beseech.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English besohte, past tense and past participle of beseech.
Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) (en-pastbeseech)
WordNet
See beseech
Usage examples of "besought".
Eugenia, who, affrighted to see her thus strangely disordered, besought her to go back to the chaise.
She wrung her hands in anguish, and besought him to send instantly an express to Etherington, with the fatal tidings.
Although the sensuality wished what the reason besought, it did not belong to the sensuality to seek this by praying, but to the reason, as stated above.
His Father, He besought Him in prayer for those gifts still due to Him in His human nature, such as the glory of His body, and the like.
This very glory which Christ, while praying, besought for Himself, pertained to the salvation of others according to Rom.
He besought was not indeed fulfilled, because His reason which formed the petition did not desire its fulfilment, but for our instruction, it was His will to make known to us His natural will, and the movement of His sensuality, which was His as man.
He entered, into towns or into villages or into cities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought Him that they might touch but the hem of His garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole.
Christ by praying besought and merited His Resurrection, as man and not as God.
They earnestly besought him to return, to compose himself, and to promise he would commit no rash action.
Camilla, in the gentlest words, besought the lady to accompany her to the friends she had just left, who would be happy to protect her.
Yet what she excited seemed still stronger: the fair stranger besought her friendship as a solace to her existence, and hung upon her as upon a treasure long lost, and dearly recovered.
Sir Hugh, also, was going, for he had no time, he said, to lose in his but Eugenia, taking his arm, besought that nothing might, at present, be mentioned.
Edgar, giving him the charge of his horse, earnestly besought him to retire in quiet, and to keep his opinions and experiments to himself.
Miss Margland was preparing him a reproachful reception, but was so much offended by the fishy smell which he brought into the room, that she had immediate recourse to her salts, and besought him to stand out of her way.
Mittin, besought her, the next morning, to demand all her Southampton bills, to add to them those for the rent and the stores of Higden, and then to transact the business with Mr.