Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary PowersDivision (II) Intersocial Volition
Section II. Special Intersocial Volition
765. Request.
motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation [eccl.]; proposal, proposition.
orison (worship) [See Worship]; incantation (spell) [See Spell].
mendicancy, mendicat on [rare]; asking, begging &c. v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation.
bespeak, canvass, tout [cant, Eng.], make interest, court; seek, bid for (offer) [See Offer]; publish the banns.
ENTREAT, beseech, plead, supplicate, beg hard, implore; conjure, adjure; obsecrate [rare], apostrophize, obtest [rare]; 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 [slang or humorous].
beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a-begging; mendicate [rare], mump, cadge [dial. or slang, Eng.], beg one’s bread.
dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.
IMPORTUNATE, clamorous, urgent, solicitous; cap in hand; on one’s -knees, – bended knees, – marrowbones [slang or humorous].