To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To encourage.
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
To request formally.
An invitation.
To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.