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Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden.

to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. -- To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. -- To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To…

it or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.

porary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. Till at the last aslaked was mood. Chaucer. Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.

One and one, One by one, singly; one at a time; one after another."Raising one by one the suppliant crew." Dryden.

To ponder. [Obs.] Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint. Spenser.

Suppliant; beseeching. Bp. Hopkins. Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. Jarman.

Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. Milton.

entrance or access to again. Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to readmit the suppliant. Milton.

or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends. Tickell.

The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation. In all submission and humility York doth present himself unto your highness. Shak. No duty in religion is more justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all thing…

One who supplicates; a suppliant. The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God. Rogers.