Solicit

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to seek for (something) by entreaty【文】懇求, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: 



He solicited [aid] from the minister.  



2. to entreat or petition (請願) (someone or some agency): 



to solicit [the committee] for funds.  



3. to seek to influence or incite to action, esp. unlawful or wrong action. 

4. to offer to have sex with in exchange for money.  



–verb (used without object) 

5. to make a petition or request, as for something desired. 

6. to solicit orders or trade, as for a business: 



No soliciting [allowed] in this building.  



7. to offer to have sex with someone in exchange for money. 

—Synonyms 

2. beseech, beg. 3. excite, arouse, provoke.





Such a dramatic increase suggests that the office of the Devil's Advocate had served to reduce the number of canonizations by complicating the process. Some argue that it served a useful role in ensuring that canonizations did not proceed without due care and hence the status of sainthood was not easily achieved. 



In cases of controversy the Vatican may still seek to informally solicit the testimony of critics of a candidate for canonization. The British born American columnist Christopher Hitchens was famously asked to testify against the beatification (天主教) 宣福禮 of Mother Teresa in 2002, a role he would later humorously describe as being akin to "representing the Evil One, as it were, pro bono".【拉】為慈善機構和窮人提供的免費專業服務