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Entreat v. t. (past & past part. entreated; pres. part. entreating)

1.

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. (Obs.) "Fairly let her be entreated." "I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well."

2.

To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune. "Entreat my wife to come." "I do entreat your patience." "I must entreat of you some of that money." "Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door." "Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife."

3.

To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. "It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat."

4.

To invite; to entertain. (Obs.) "Pleasures to entreat."

Synonyms: To beseech; beg; solicit; crave; implore; supplicate. See Beseech.

Entreat v. i.

1.

To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty. (Obs.) "Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat." "Alexander... was first that entreated of true peace with them."

2.

To make an earnest petition or request. "The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men."

noun

Entreat n. Entreaty. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Entreat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Entreat" Quotes from Famous Books

... Miss Howe wrote to the immortal Clarissa, my paper is at an end, my crowquill worn to the stump. So I can only add as postscript to such of my dear friends as write the letters which my soul abhors, that I hope, beg, entreat they will at least ...

— Hortus Vitae - Essays on the Gardening of Life • Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee

... tell anything. Now listen to me. You are certain to be shot at seven to-morrow morning. I have asked for delay—none will be given. I come only to entreat you to make your peace with God—to tell you that you have but these few hours in which to repent. Let me pray with you—for you. There is nothing else I can do for you; I have tried and failed. ...

— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... absent person, in his eyes. It is certain that he often requested me to dress myself or to arrange my hair in a certain fashion, to wear such and such a color, or to use a particular perfume which he gave me. Frequently, when I was moving about the house, he suddenly exclaimed: 'Marguerite! I entreat you, ...

— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... self-contempt. For himself he had no desire after prolonged existence. Why should he desire to live a day, not to say forever—worth nothing to himself, or to any one? If there were a God, he would rather entreat Him, and that he would do humbly enough, to unmake him again. Certainly, if there were a God, He had not done over well by His creatures, making them so ignorant and feeble that they could not fail to fall. Would Mr. Drake have made his ...

— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald

... sire, than you suppose. Whilst hesitating here to answer me, Mathan, beside the queen, indignant flaming, Demands the signal, panting for the carnage. Must I entreat you at your sacred feet, By the place saintly, closed to all but you, Dread place, where dwells the majesty of God? However hard the task on you imposed, We must but think of warding off the blow. O give ...

— Athaliah • J. Donkersley

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