Obs. Also 5–6 sollicitate, 6 Sc. solicitat. [ad. L. sōl-, sollicitātus, pa. pple. of sollicitāre SOLICIT v.] Solicitous, anxious, careful; characterized by care or solicitude.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), III. 403. The kynge of Macedony, sollicitate and besy for the succession of þat realme.
1548. Wishart, Conf. Faith, in Misc. Wodr. Soc. (1844), 22. A solicitat and thoughtfull charge of the poore.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 133. Nature was not sollicitate to brynge furthe suche greate fluds.
Hence † Solicitateness. Obs.–1
1560. Whitehorne, Arte Warre, 28 b. With greater industrie, & more sollicitatenesse.
