sollicit

English

Verb

sollicit (third-person singular simple present sollicits, present participle solliciting, simple past and past participle sollicited)

1. Obsolete spelling of solicit.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.

   • 1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper:

     PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.

   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128,^[1]

     […] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]