Entreat \En*treat"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entreated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Entreating}.] [OE. entreten to treat, request, OF. entraiter to treat of; pref. en- (L. in) + traitier to treat. See {Treat}.] 1. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.]
Fairly let her be entreated. --Shak.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. --Jer. xv. 11.
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.'' --Shak.
I must entreat of you some of that money. --Shak.
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. --Poe.
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife. --Gen. xxv. 21.
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. --Rogers.
4. To invite; to entertain. [Obs.] ``Pleasures to entreat.'' --Spenser.
Syn: To beseech; beg; solicit; crave; implore; supplicate. See {Beseech}.
Entreat \En*treat"\, 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. --Hakewill.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them. --1 Mac. x. 47.
2. To make an earnest petition or request.
The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men. --Knolles.
Entreat \En*treat"\, n. Entreaty. [Obs.] --Ford.
Salisbury treated the process with patrician disdain: 'No more tobacconists I entreat you,' he wrote to his colleague the Duke of Devonshire after a dodgy baronetcy raised eyebrows. The trafficking was hidden from public view.