solicit, solycyte, sollicite

t. & i. [Fr. soliciter, from Lat. sollicito =to agitate, to incite, to solicit, from sol licit us =wholly agitated, excited, solicitous, from O. Lat. sollus whole, entire, and cit us, pa. par. of cieo =to shake, to excite, to cite (q.v.); Sp. & Port. solicitar; Ital. sol licit are.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language : 1. To ask with some degree of earnestne ; ta importune; to make petition to. "Unle his noble mother and his wife; Who, as I hear, meant to solicit him For mercy." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, v. 1. 2. To ask for with some degree of earnestne ; to petition; to seek by petition. *3. To awake or excite to action; to move, to stir, to rouse. "Men are sollicited and moved by salt more than by anything else." -P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xxx i., ch. vii. *4. To move, to agitate, to stir. "With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth." Cowper : Task , iii. 115. *5. To disturb, to disquiet; to make anxious. (A Latinism.) " Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid." Milton : P. L., viii. 167. *6. To enforce or urge the claims of; to plead for. "He will send thither, with all speed, the Bishop of Bayton to further, sollicite , and set forth the same." - Bur net: Records, bk. ii., No. 22. *7. To try to obtain or acquire. "To solicit by labour what might be ravished by arms, was esteemed unworthy of the German spirit."-Gibbon: Decline and Fall ., ch. ix. IMG:content-1710.png:[blocks in formation] Ichthy.: A family of Lophobranch i i (q.v.). Gill-openings wide; two dorsale, pouch. the rays of the anterior not articulated, all the other fins well developed. [SOLENORHYNCHUS, thing. SOLE NO STOMA.] sō-len-o-strō-bus, s . [Pref. sole no- , and Greek strobos a top, a whirling round.] Palæobot.: A genus of plants from the London Clay. Five species are known. *sol-er, *sol-ere, s. [Lat. solarium , from sol = the sun.] [SOLLAR.] *sol-ert, adj . [Latin solers (gen it. solertis ).] Crafty, skillful. "It was far more reasonable to think, that because man was the wisest (or most solert and active) of all animals, therefore he had hands given him."-Cudworth: Intell. System , p. 685. *so-ler-tious-ne , s. [SOLERT.] The quality or state of being solert; craft, expertne , slyne . *sōle-ship, subst . [Eng. sole , a.; -ship .] Single state; solene . "This ambition of a sole power-this dangerous sole ship is a fault in our church indeed."- sir E. Dering : Speeches , p. 134. sō-lě-ŭs, s. [From Lat. sole a (q. v.).] Anatomy : A biceps muscle rising on the outside from the upper part of the tibia, and internally from the outside of the fibula; it joins the gastrocnemius to form the ten do A chillis .