[f. as prec.] That solicits, in senses of the verb.
1605. Shaks., Lear, I. i. 234. A still soliciting eye, and such a tongue,… Hath lost me in your liking.
1704. J. Norris, Ideal World, II. vii. 355. The soliciting motion of adjacent or circumambient bodies.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris (ed. 5), 207. These soliciting females are not easily rebuffed.
1829. Chapters Phys. Sci., 17. Properties relative to soliciting forces.
1885. W. Roberts, Urin. & Renal Dis., III. xiii. (ed. 4), 647. The column of liquid in the tube … exercising a soliciting force on the contents of the sac.
