ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

esist, cross; not grant &c 762; repel, repulse, shut the door in one's face, slam the
door in one's face; rebuff; send back, send to the right about, send away with a flea in the
ear; deny oneself, not be at home to; discard, spurn, &c (repudiate) 610; rescind &c
(revoke) 756; disclaim, protest; dissent &c 489.
Adj. refusing &c v.; restive, restiff † ; recusant; uncomplying, unconsenting; not willing to
hear of, deaf to.
refused &c v.; ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible.
Adv. no &c 536; on no account, not for the world; no thank you, thanks but no thanks.
Phr. non possumus [Lat.]; your humble servant [Iron.]; bien oblige [Fr.]; not on your
life [U.S.]; no way; not even if you beg on your knees.
765. Request -- N. request, requisition; claim &c (demand) 741; petition, suit, prayer;
begging letter, round robin.
motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation;
rogation; proposal, proposition.
orison &c (worship) 990; incantation &c (spell) 993.
mendicancy; asking, begging &c v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty,
importunity, supplication, instance, impetration † , imploration † , obsecration † , obtestation † ,
invocation, interpellation.
V. request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold
to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request,
address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer,
prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put
up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim &c
(demand) 741; offer up prayers &c (worship) 990; whistle for.
beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest † ; cry to,
kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate † , imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset,
importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself
at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.
beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate † , mump † , cadge,
beg one's bread.
dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.
bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for &c (offer) 763; publish the
banns.
Adj. requesting &c v.; precatory † ; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant;
obsecratory † .
importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees,
on one's marrowbones.
Adv. prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness,
vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
Int. for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!,
Phr. Dieu vous garde [Fr.]; dirigenos Domine [Lat.]; would you be so kind as to.
766. [Negative request.] Deprecation -- N. deprecation, expostulation; intercession,
mediation, protest, remonstrance.
V. deprecate, protest, expostulate, enter a protest, intercede for; remonstrate.