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1. 애원하다, 간청하다, 탄원하다, 빌다, 요청하다

1. I beseech, beg, pray, entreat.
2. I wish well or ill (to someone); I greet with a wish.

예문

• Deumque semper precentur, ut imperii Americani felicitas perpetua sit. (Francis Glass, Washingtonii Vita, CAPUT VICESIMUM SECUNDUM. 24:242)

  (프란키스 글라스, , 24:242)

• solvit bracchia, quae Deum precentur. (Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber, Hymnus in honorem Beatissimorum Martyrum Fructuosi Episcopi Ecclesiae Tarraconensis, et Augurii et Eulogii Diaconorum. 6:55)

  (프루덴티우스, , 6:55)

• parietes postesque nudatos quos adorent, ad quos precentur et supplicent, Ambraciensibus superesse: (Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, Liber XXXVIII 537:2)

  (티투스 리비우스, 로마 건국사, 537:2)

• eas quoque ipsas quae officio decesserint, si legati circa eas colonias mittantur qui castigent, non qui precentur, verecundiam imperii habituras esse. (Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, Liber XXVII 150:2)

  (티투스 리비우스, 로마 건국사, 150:2)

• "credo et Amazoniis Tanain fumasse sepulcris, unde haec arma refers,sed et hunc dignare triumphum, da terris unum caeloque Ereboque laborem, si patrium Marathona metu, si tecta levasti Cressia, nec fudit vanos anus hospita fletus, sic tibi non ullae socia sine Pallade pugnae, nec sacer invideat paribus Tirynthius actis, semper et in curru, semper te mater ovantem cernat, et invictae nil tale precentur Athenae." (Statius, P. Papinius, Thebais, book 12 12:283)

  (스타티우스, 푸블리우스 파피니우스, , 12권 12:283)

유의어 사전

1. Rogare and orare denote simply a request as the quiet utterance of a wish; but the rogans (ὀργᾶν, ὀρέγεσθαι) feels himself al pari, on a par with the person whom he asks, and asks only a courtesy, like αἰτεῖν; the orans acknowledges the superiority of the other, and asks a benefit, like δεῖσθαι; whereas obsecrare and obtestari denote a passionate asking, as to conjure; but the obsecrans asks urgently, like λιπαρεῖν; the obtestans (from θέσσασθαι) in a suppliant manner. Cic. Att. xvi. 10. Igitur, mi Plance, rogo te atque etiam oro. Pseudocic. p. Red. 16. Pro mea vos salute non rogavit solum, verum etiam obsecravit. 2. Precari denotes the calm act of prayer, in which one raises one’s hand to heaven, like εύχεσθαι; but supplicare denotes the passionate act of supplication, in which one throws one’s self on one’s knees, or on the ground, and wrings one’s hands, like ἱκετεύειν. By hyperbole, however, precor denotes any urgent request; supplicare, any humble request, addressed to a human being. Cic. Parad. v. 3. Noctu venire domum ad eum, precari, denique supplicare. (v. 232.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein