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obsecrare [CL] 1 to ask, entreat, exhort. te fiducialiter ‥ ~o Ep. Aldh. 6; ~o, ~as, i. rogare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 516; inproperat, arguit, ~at, se fugientibus obicit Map NC IV 7 f. 51; demonder ‥ ~are Gl. AN Ox. f. 154v. 2 to beg, beseech (someone to do something); a (w. inf. or acc. & inf.); b (w. ut or ne & subj.); c (w. quatenus & subj.); d (w. subj.). a non imperans sed ~ans eos fortes in fide persistere Bede Ep. Cath. 67; ~ans eum pro se ‥ supplicare Id. HE III 15 p. 158; unumquemque ‥ ~ans pro eo missas ‥ et orationes facere Cuthb. Ob. Baedae clxiii.  b 705 ~o ut mihi innotescere digneris quid de hac re agere debeam Wealdhere Ep. 22; ~ans ne vanitatem saeculi ‥ veritati caelestium praeponat scripturarum Bede Prov. 1024; 805 omnes ‥ humiliter ~amus ut semper augere studeant ‥ bonum suum CS 320; suppliciter ~antes ut illi illis auxiliarentur Asser Alf. 30; magnificentiam tuam ~o ut ‥ nobis consentias Ord. Vit. XII 24 p. 399; ~amus ‥ ut instare vellitis pro nobis Strecche Hen. V 173.  c obsecrans summi per regna tonantis / quatinus haec nulli ‥ / dicant Æthelwulf Abb. 483; c1150 vobis mando diligenter et in Domino ~o quatinus predictam ecclesiam ‥ manuteneatis Ch. Chester 98; Deum ~o quatinus angelicam voluntatem ‥ dignetur perficere V. Chris. Marky. 30.  d obsecro, nulla manus violet pia jura sepulchri Alcuin Carm. 123. 19; conticescant ~o Ord. Vit. VI 1 p. 2. 3 (~o, used parenthetically w. imp.) I beg you, please. ~o ‥ praecordia vestra replete Bede Cant. 1152; supplex ~o ‥ me indignum in tuo timore confirma Nunnam. 61; perge, obsecro, tam nigram discute noctem Mir. Nin. 129. 4 (pr. ppl. as sb.) petitioner. nullo alio responso ~antes dignati W. Malm. GR IV 318.

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