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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUPPLICA'TION, n. [L. supplicatio.]
1. Entreaty; humble and earnest prayer in worship. In all our supplications to the Father of mercies, let us remember a world lying in ignorance and wickedness.
2. Petition; earnest request.
3. In Roman antiquity, a religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success. It consisted in sacrifices, feasting, offering thanks, and praying for a continuance of success.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service [syn: invocation, supplication]
2: a humble request for help from someone in authority [syn: supplication, plea]
3: the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); "the priest sank to his knees in prayer" [syn: prayer, supplication]

Merriam Webster's

noun see supplicate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Supplication Sup`pli*ca"tion, n. [F. supplication, L. supplicatio.] 1. The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship. 2. A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty. 3. (Rom. Antiq.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn: Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(supplications) A supplication is a prayer to God or a respectful request to someone in authority for help. (FORMAL) He raised his arms in a gesture of supplication... N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Prayer, orison, invocation, petition. 2. Entreaty, petition, solicitation, prayer, request.

Moby Thesaurus

Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, aid prayer, appeal, application, beadroll, beads, begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet, clamor, collect, communion, contemplation, cry, devotions, entreating, entreaty, grace, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, intercession, invocation, invocatory plea, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, pleading, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, solicitation, soliciting, suit, supplicating, thanks, thanksgiving