asitia

[Gr. ασιτία ( asitia ) = want of food, lo of appetite; ἀσιτέω ( asiteō ) = not to eat; ἄσιτος ( asitos ) = without eating: a, priv., and σίτος ( sitos ) = wheat; also food.] Med. Lo of appetite, loathing of food. ask, * aske, *asche, *ashe, * ask-i-ěn, * ěsk'-i-ěn, * ask'-ěn, * ask-in, * a , * ǎxe, ăx'-i-ěn (pret. asked, * ask-ěde, *ăsch'-ěd, ăc-sěde, * ǎsch' - ěde, * ě-ǎsk'ed), v.t. & i [A.S. acsian, ascian, æsci an, ahsian, axian, acsigan , axigean . In Sw. æska ; O. Icel. æskja : O. Fris. askea , aschia ; Dut. eischen; Ger. he is chen; O. H. Ger. eiscon ; O. L. Ger. escon = to ask; Sansc. ish = to desire.] A. Transitive : I. To solicit or demand a reply in words to a question put. 1. To question, to inquire of, to interrogate.... when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?"Josh, iv. 6. Sometimes the word question is put after the interrogatory verb, as neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions."- Matt . xxii. 46. 2. To inquire about, to solicit information regarding. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God,.."-Judg. xviii. 5. Ask in this first sense of inquire is followed by the objective of the person, and con cerning or regarding or of prefixed to the thing about which information is solicited. " Ask now the priests concerning the law,..." Hagg . ii. 11. " Ask me of things to come."- Isa . xlv. 11. * II. To lay to one's charge; the original meaning probably being to demand from one an answer to a charge. "False witne es did rise up; they laid to my charge [margin, asked me things that I knew not." P &. XXXV. 11. III. To solicit or demand any desirable thing, as contradistinguished from mere words. 1. To solicit by prayer or petition; to beg. "Where-fore I ashe you pardoun and youre grace, Sithe me behoveth deth or youre merc ye. La Belle Dame Sanz Mercy (ed. Furnivall), 687-8. ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." John xv. 7. 2. To demand (of), to require (from), or, at least, to expect (from). "To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." - Luke xii, 48. IV. To invite: as, To ask one to a party. ( Colloquial .) health. To ask after one: To enquire after one's V. Fig .: To require, to need, to stand in need of. "To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth ask'd ages more." Cowper: Table Talk. "Man's coltish disposition asks the thong." Cowper: Progre of Error. Or it is followed by two objectives, the one of the person and the other of the thing: I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me." Jer . xxxviii. 14. (Properly speaking, there is an ellipsis, of being omitted before the person: "I will ask [of] thee.") In the sentence, "Ask us a king" (1 Sam. xii. 19), there seems an ellipsis of for : "Ask [for] us a king." Or it is followed by the objective of the thing, and of , from , or at of the person the last named: " Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God;..."- Isa . vii. 11. B. Intransitive: 1. To inquire, to put a question, to solicit divine direction. "1 ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?"- Acts x. 29. 2. To pray, to solicit. "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering."James 1. 6. Ask , v.i., is followed by of or at prefixed to the person addre ed. ". thou wonldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. -John iv. lù. have not asked at my mouth."- Isa . xxx. 2 Or before a noun of multitude among may be used. " Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things,.."- Jer. xviii. 18. The object inquired about or petitioned for is preceded by for or after. "That any spir, othir man or wine, Or efter the cros will the a , That ihesu crist on hanged was." Finding of the Cro (ed. Morris), 186-188. ask for the old paths, where is the good was and walk therein,."-Jer. vi. 16. "Why astest thou thus after my name,..."Jude xiii. 18. * ask, * aske, * ask-ěr (0. Eng . ), ěsk ( Scotch ), s. [A.S. a there a lizard, a newt; Ger. eidechse = a lizard; O. H. Ger. egidehsa.) A water-newt, an eft. Any of the Tritons or Lis so tritons. ( Scotch .) [TRITON, LIS SO TRITON.] as-kant, * as-kâ'unt, * as-câ'unt, adv. [Connected on the one hand with askance , and on the other with aslant (q.v.); O. Fr. a scanche obliquely ( Palsgrave ).] Obliquely, askance, askew, aslant, slantingly. (Used specially of the eyes.) "At this Achilles roll'd his furious eyes, Fix'd on the king askaunt , and thus replies: O, impudent." Dryden.