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Definition of beseech :
1. Solicitation; supplication.
2. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
Synonyms:
constrict, call, iron, tender, pray, compact, study at beg, demand, cabal, agitate, arouse, bid, evoke, put forward, crave, conjure up, exhort, fight, importune, bring up, campaign, iron out, squeeze, push, complot, adjure, wish, crusade, conjure, urge on, sue, conspire, machinate, urge, compress, press out, press, call down, weightlift, raise, offer, invoke, ask, require, weight-lift, contract, weigh, call forth, stir
appeal (part of speech: verb)
beg, appeal, implore, greet, apply, address, petition, entreat, plead, request, solicit, supplicate, approach, entice, buttonhole, accost, invite
Usage examples:
- I do beseech you. - "Hamlet", William Shakespeare.
- We beseech you not to allow us to be carried off captive a second time." - "Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)", Plutarch.
- I beseech you, do not deceive yourselves by supposing that you repent, for you do not; but, oh! - "Godliness", Catherine Booth.