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Verb
sollicit (third-person singular simple present sollicits, present participle solliciting, simple past and past participle sollicited)
- Obsolete spelling of solicit..
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.
1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper: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.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128,
- 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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