Verb

(en verb)

To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.

to solicit alms, or a favour

* Alexander Pope

I view my crime, but kindle at the view, / Repent old pleasures, and solicit new.

Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

To woo; to court.

To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.

* Milton

That fruit solicited her longing eye.

* Locke

Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind.

If you want to lose your virginity, you should try to solicit some fine looking women.

To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.

My girlfriend tried to solicit me for sex, but I was tired.

To make a petition.

(archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.

To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

* Ford

Should / My brother henceforth study to forget / The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever / Solicit thy deserts.

(obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.

* Chapman

Hath any ill solicited thine ears?

* Dryden

But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.

Verb

(en verb)

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

* Milton

The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

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To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

to extract an essential oil from a plant

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To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

* Jonathan Swift

I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.

(arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).