One who supplicates; a suppliant.
adj.
Supplicating.
[From Latin supplicāns, supplicant-, present participle of supplicāre, to kneel down. See supplicate.]
supplicant
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n.
One who supplicates; a suppliant.
adj.
Supplicating.
One who supplicates; a suppliant.
adj.
Supplicating.
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
someone who prays to God
Synonym: prayer
Meaning #2:
one praying humbly for something
Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant
The adjective supplicant has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
humbly entreating
Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory
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- This page is about candidates for degrees and humble petitioners; for information on the computing term see Supplicant (computer).
A Supplicant, one who supplicates, is a term applied to humble petitioners, and in particular to University of Oxford students who have qualified but not yet been admitted into their degree.
At both Oxford and Cambridge, students are presented during the degree ceremony with a form of words that begins with the Latin verb "supplicant". The Cambridge text is:
- "Supplicant reverentiis vestris viri mulieresque quorum nomina juxta senaculum in porticu proposuit hodie Registrarius nec delevit Procancellarius ut gradum quisque quem rite petivit assequantur."
- "Those men and women whose names the Registrary has today posted in the arcade beside the Senate-House and which the Vice-Chancellor has not deleted beg your reverences that they may proceed to the degree for which each has properly applied."
However, these students are referred to as graduands at Cambridge and most universities other than Oxford. There is certainly a need for such a word to describe qualified graduates and it seems possible that U.S. sources provided or resurrected "graduand" into current usage. The current online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary lists graduand citing usage from 1882 and 1890 and etymological roots of the gerundive of the medieval Latin graduare "to graduate".
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| Translations: Supplicant |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - ydmyg, bedende, bønlig
Nederlands (Dutch)
aanvullend, iemand die/ iets dat aanvult
Français (French)
n. - suppliant
adj. - de supplication, suppliant
Deutsch (German)
n. - Bittsteller
adj. - bittend
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ικέτης
adj. - ικετευτικός
Italiano (Italian)
supplice, supplicante
Português (Portuguese)
n. - suplicante (m)
adj. - suplicante
Русский (Russian)
проситель, соискатель ученой степени, молящийся
Español (Spanish)
n. - suplicante
adj. - suplicante
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - supplikant
adj. - bedjande, bönfallande, ödmjuk
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
恳求者, 恳请者
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 懇求者, 懇請者
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 懇願する
n. - 懇願者
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الشخص المتوسل أو المتضرع (صفه) متوسل , متضرع
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מבקש, מתחנן, מתפלל
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