flagitate

From Latin flagitatus, past participle of flagitare (“to demand”). See flagitious.

flagitate (third-person singular simple present flagitates, present participle flagitating, simple past and past participle flagitated)

1. (archaic) To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
   • Thomas Carlyle

     Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.

flāgitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of flāgitō