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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

supplicans

, p. pr. See

, and cf.

Entreating; asking submissively.

Shak.

–

Sup′pli-cant-ly

adv.

Noun.

One who supplicates; a suppliant.

The wise

supplicant

. . . left the event to God.

Rogers.

Adj.

[L. supplicans.] Entreating; asking submissively.

Noun.

One that entreats; a petitioner who asks earnestly and submissively.

The wise supplicant--left the event to God.