Entreat /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Entreated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

   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.]

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.

1. Entreaty. [Obs.]