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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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"Entreat" Quotes from Famous Books



... this traitor vile Has scorned my power and me; How canst thou, then, for such a man Entreat ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... preunderstanding, in almost every town, where there is any intelligence among them, there are some colored persons of both sexes, who are studying the Spanish language. Even the Methodist and other clergymen, among them. And we earnestly entreat all colored persons who can, to study, and have their children taught Spanish. No foreign language will be of such import to colored people, in a very short time, as the Spanish. Mexico, Central and South America, importune us to speak their language; ...
— The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States • Martin R. Delany
... not allow themselves to believe that, aside from the ranks of those who have a direct personal interest in this system, a man of character could be found in Rhode Island to defend it. The memorialists deem lotteries to be in Rhode Island a paramount social evil. They entreat the General Assembly to survey this evil in all its phases, and then to apply the remedy. The interposition which is now asked at the hands of the Legislature has been delayed too long, either for the interests or for the character of the state. It is time that we protected our interests, ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green
... We know that on the 7th of June a three-mast vessel, the BRITANNIA of Glasgow, foundered; that two sailors and the captain threw this document into the sea in 37 degrees 11" latitude, and they entreat help." ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne
... lies in slumber senseless-sweet. His fame, his wife's and children's tears, The issue that made up his manly years, His hates and loves the burgeoning Earth receives, And list, "a little noiseless noise among the leaves" Of southern springtime pity does entreat. ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


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