Adjective: beseeching bi'see-chingVerb: beseech (beseeched, also besought) bi'seech
- Ask for or request earnestly
"The charity beseeched donors for additional funds";
- bid, entreat, adjure, press, conjure [archaic]
See also: adjuratory, importunate, mendicant, petitionary, precative, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory
Type of: plead
Antonym: imperative
Encyclopedia: Beseech