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v. To seek to obtain by persuasion, entreaty, or formal application: a candidate who solicited votes among the factory workers.

v. To petition persistently; importune: solicited the neighbors for donations.

v. To entice or incite to evil or illegal action.

v. To approach or accost (a person) with an offer of sexual services.

verb-intransitive. To make solicitation or petition for something desired.

verb-intransitive. To approach or accost someone with an offer of sexual services in return for payment.

v. To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.

v. To woo; to court.

v. To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.

v. To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.

v. To make a petition.

v. To disturb or trouble; to harass.

v. To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

v. To disturb; to disquiet.

v. To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something.

v. To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for.

v. To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.

v. To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

v. To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.

To arouse or excite to action; summon; invite; tempt; allure; entice.

In criminal law:

To incite (another) to commit a crime.

To entice (a man) in a public place: said of a prostitute.

To endeavor to bias or influence by the offer of a bribe.

To disturb; disquiet; make anxious.

To seek to obtain; strive after, especially by pleading; ask (a thing) with some degree of earnestness or persistency: as, to solicit an office or a favor; to solicit orders.

To petition or ask (a person) with some degree of earnestness or persistency; make petition to.

To advocate; plead; enforce the claims of; act as solicitor or advocate for or with reference to.

Synonyms and

Request, Beg, etc. (see ask), press, urge, pray, plead for or with, sue for.

To make solicitation.

n. Solicitation; request.

v. make amorous advances towards

v. make a solicitation or petition for something desired

v. incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination

v. approach with an offer of sexual favors

v. make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently

"There's a technical definition of the term solicit; and the question is whether or not being in a fundraising dinner committee counts as soliciting."

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solicitor    solicitude    unsolicited    solicitation    solicitous   

importune    beg    syn    implore    request    beseech    entreat    supplicate    ask    crave   

bisset    elicit   

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