A Topical Dictionary: Search for asking

Dictionary Results For "asking" [?]/[OPML]

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Verb

asking

present participle|Present participle of to ask.

Category:English present participles

io:asking fi:asking te:asking vi:asking

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ask \Ask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Asked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Asking.] [OE. asken, ashen, axien, AS. [=a]scian,
[=a]csian; akin to OS. [=e]sc[=o]n, OHG. eisc[=o]n, Sw.
[=a]ska, Dan. [ae]ske, D. eischen, G. heischen, Lith.
j["e]sk['o]ti, OSlav. iskati to seek, Skr. ish to desire.
[root]5.]
1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to
solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before
the person addressed.
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Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. --Judg. xviii.
5.
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto
you. --John xv. 7.
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2. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of
remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as,
what price do you ask?
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Ask me never so much dowry. --Gen. xxxiv.
12.
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To whom men have committed much, of him they will
ask the more. --Luke xii.
48.
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An exigence of state asks a much longer time to
conduct a design to maturity. --Addison.
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3. To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a
question to or about; to question.
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He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
--John ix. 21.
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He asked the way to Chester. --Shak.
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4. To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
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5. To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the
banns and the persons. --Fuller.
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Syn: To beg; request; seek; petition; solicit; entreat;
beseech; implore; crave; require; demand; claim;
exhibit; inquire; interrogate. See Beg.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Asking \Ask"ing\, n.
1. The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition;
solicitation. --Longfellow.
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2. The publishing of banns.
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WordNet asking
adj : relating to the use of or having the nature of an
interrogation [syn: interrogative, interrogatory, asking(a)]
[ant: declarative, declarative]
n : the verbal act of requesting [syn: request]