solicitate (was documentate)

[Barnhart]

Silly me.  I should have looked in OED first.  Solicitate:

1. to manage or conduct (1547)
2. to excite, stir up, or stimulate (1568)
3. to request, entreat, beseech (1563)
4. to take action, make application (1572)

The entry is labelled "obs."  Perhaps not anymore.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

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>solicitate (1921)
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>In an advertisement for a bank in the Wichita Fails Daily Times (5/20/21):
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>"Why we solicitate your business ..."