BEG, ENTREAT, BESEECH, IMPLORE, SUPPLICATE, ADJURE, IMPORTUNE mean to ask urgently.

BEG suggests earnestness or insistence in the asking.

e.g. they begged for help

ENTREAT implies an effort to persuade or to overcome resistance.

e.g. entreated me to join them

BESEECH and IMPLORE imply a deeply felt anxiety.

e.g. I beseech you to have mercy implored her not to leave him

SUPPLICATE suggests a posture of humility.

e.g. with bowed heads they supplicated their Lord

ADJURE implies advising as well as pleading.

e.g. we were adjured to tell the truth

IMPORTUNE suggests an annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request.

e.g. importuning viewers for contributions

verb no object

ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly:

(…に) «…を» 嘆願［懇願］する «for»

e.g. with infinitive : the plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.

supplicatory |ˈsəpləkəˌtôrē| adjective

late Middle English: from Latin supplicat- ‘implored’, from the verb supplicare, from sub- ‘from below’ + placere ‘propitiate’.