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▪ I. † enˈtreat, n. Obs.
Also 5 entrete, 6 entreate, 6–7 intreat(e.
[f. next vb.; OF. had entraite, f. entraitier vb.]
The action of the vb. entreat. †a. Negotiation, intervention (obs.). b. Entreaty, supplication.
1485Malory Arthur i. ii, By the entrete at the last the kyng & she met to gyder. 1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 68 By great entreate and humble sute. a1592Greene Poems 99 Use no entreats, I will relentless rest. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 14, I..with all the intreates that I could frame, perswaded him to entertaine that seruant of mine. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xlv. 4 At his entreat The wonders ceas'd. 1650Don Bellianis 142 Which..you will not do at my intreats.
▪ II. entreat, v.|ɛnˈtriːt|
Forms: α. 4–6 entrete, 5–6 -ede, 6–7 -eate, (6 -ait(e), 4– entreat; β. 6–7 intreate, 6 intrait, -ete, (-eit), 6–9 intreat.
[ad. OF. entraiter, entraitier, f. en- (see en-1) + traiter to treat. In the archaistic use 1 the spelling intreat still sometimes occurs.]
†I. To treat; to handle. Obs. or arch.
1. trans. To treat, deal with, act towards (a person, etc.) in a (specified) manner. Obs. exc. arch.
αc1430Hymns Virg. 22 So betyn, so woundyd, Entretyd so fuly. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlviii. 317 The other Capytayns were..entreated as men of warre ben acustomed. 1551Wotton in Froude Hist. Eng. (1881) V. 6 My aunt, her mother, was evil entreated by the king that dead is. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 139 The olde Ewes..be easlyer to be entreated. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xxxi. (1840) 173 The pope ill entreated and imprisoned his [Frederick's] messengers. c1720Prior Poems (J.), Well I entreated her, who well deserv'd. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 62 Their authors..spitefully entreated as monomaniacs.
β1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. 296 To..intrete euery persone..accordynge to theyr degre and hauour. 1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 153 Intreating whole troopes of Prince Maurices as friendes. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea 271 Shee [the ship] fell over upon that side suddenly, intreating many of them which were in her, very badly. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 147 How hee might best order, and intreat them [Bees] according to their kind. 1718Col. Rec. Penn. III. 52 They ought to be well used and Civilly Intreated. 1800Addison Amer. Law Rep. 277 To wound, beat, and evilly intreat. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 135 They evil intreated one another.
†2. To take (a thing) in hand; esp. to treat, handle (a subject or question). Obs.
α1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. 290 As say the doctours entreatynge this gospell, & her lyfe. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 The seconde boke..entreateth what is the iourney of religion. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde (1564) 98 In this third booke shalbe entreated what is to be done to the Infant borne. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 555 That yeares actes..were sufficientlye entreated of all three. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 540 To entreat or handle, tractare.
β1536Latimer 2nd Serm. Convoc. i. 43 It should be too long to intreat, how the children of light are ingendered. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 86 Yf they juge be hys frend whose cause ys intretyd. 1563Homilies ii. Repairing Churches (1859) 276 That house of God..wherein be intreated the Sacraments and mysteries of our redemption. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 184 Musick cannot be intreated or taught without the knowledge of all other sciences.
†b. To occupy oneself in. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 53 A thick Arber..In which she often usd from open heat Her selfe to shroud, and pleasures to entreat.
†c. To beguile, pass (time). Obs.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. i. 40 My Lord you must intreat the time alone.
†3. intr. Of a speaker or writer, a book, etc.: To treat of or upon a subject. Obs.
1513More Rich. III, Wks. 37/1 Richarde the third sonne, of whom we nowe entreate. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) B iiij b, Marc Aurele the emperour, of whome this present boke entreateth. c1540Life Fisher Wks. ii. Introd. 58 This excellent man of whom we intreate, John Fysher, Bishopp of Rochester. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. Divers New Exper. 4 Wherevpon Valetius entreateth in this maner. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. lxxxiii. 364 Of which wee shall speake..when wee intreate of paring and shooing. 1611Coryat's Crudities, Panegyr. Verses, Of steeples, townes and towers entreats his goose's quill. 1632Sanderson 12 Serm. 4 To intreate at this time of Saint Paul's advice. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 540 Atticus in one book did entreat of..the Records of things done in 700 years.
b. in indirect passive.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. vi. (1634) 19 This matter indeed is worthy..to bee largely entreated of. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xv. (Arb.) 50 Except Eglogue whereof shalbe entreated hereafter. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. iii. §74. 175 The subject here entreated of.
c. simply (with ellipsis of prep. and obj.).
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 302 A word or tuo, as other bookes entrete. c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 5 As towchinge the situation thereof hereafter..I meane to entreate in places convenient. 1571Digges Pantom. iii. x. R iij, Although it would seeme I had entreated sufficiently.
†4. intr. To enter into negotiations; to treat with a person; of (occasionally about, for) a thing; also simply. Obs.
c1340Cursor M. 24795 (Fairf.) To entrete of þe pais betwix him & þa danais. 14..Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 106 Herode..of thys mater entredes pryvylly. 1482J. Warkworth Chron. 27 That will speke and entrete with ther enemyes. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. clxxxv. 219 Bytwene these parties entreated for a peace, the archbysshoppe of Senns..the lorde of Saynt Venant. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 44 b, In the assemblie at Norinberge..the Princes entreated of peace. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. vi. (1622) 10 Being sent vnto you from the Germane campe, to entreat of the common profit and good.
β1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Dd iiij, She was intreatynge to mary an nother husbande. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 664 And this mariage agreed upon (which semeth more likely to be intreated of then concluded). 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 395 Attilius Regulus..being.. sent to Rome upon his faith to intreat about a peace. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. iv. 9 Ile send some holy Bishop to intreat. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 119 To intreat with him of peace.
†5. trans. To parley with (a person). Obs.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxix. 307 So they entreated the sayd Companyons, and offred them golde.
II. With additional sense of asking, asking of somebody or for something.
†6. intr. To intercede, plead for (a person). Obs.
αc1430Compl. Criste 127 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 169 Lete merci for us entrete. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 84 He wyll make other persones to..perswade & entreate for hym. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iii. 4 They..charg'd me..neither to speake of him, entreat for him, or any way sustaine him. 1611Bible Ex. viii. 9 When shall I entreat for thee?
β1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 73, I will neuer haue her, vnlesse thou intreat for her.
†7. intr. To sue, plead for (a concession or favour). Obs.
1573Twyne æneid xi. (R.), Then lets intreat for peace. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. viii. 645 The prisoners entreated for their release.
8. trans. To ask earnestly for (a thing); chiefly with clause as obj. Occas. const. of (a person).
α1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 118, I..doe entreat Thou pardon me my wrongs. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. IV. 200 He entreated that they would elect such, in particular, as had, etc. 1780Burke Execution Rioters Wks. IX. 266 For God's sake entreat of Lord North to take a view of the sum total. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian x, I entreat you will speak explicitly. 1878Joaquin Miller Songs Italy 94 To entreat of the gods what they will not give.
βa1600Creation in Evergreen (1761) I. 166 The serpent..persuadit me..Intreiting, be eiting, That we suld be perfyte. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 28 Our tyred limbes..intreat soft rest. 1611Bible Ps. xlv. 12 The rich among the people shall intreate thy fauour. 1653Walton Angler Ep. Ded., To intreat that they [former favours] may be enlarged to the patronage..of this Book. 1712Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 496, I intreat therefore yt you would insert it in y⊇ Post-Boy.
9. To make an earnest prayer or request to; to beseech, implore. Chiefly with subord. clause or const. to with inf. Formerly also const. of, or with n. as second obj.
α1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 134 Wherfore he entredyd the sayde brydge-maysters of respyte in the mater. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxii. (1845) 158 Dame Correccion..Did me entreat a while to abyde. 1534Whittinton Tullyes Offices iii. (1540) 132 To entreat the iudge..what thynges he may do sauying his conscience. 1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 94 They promised to Intreate the King for him. 1611Bible Gen. xxv. 21 Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. 1735Berkeley Free-thinking in Math. §48 Wks. 1871 III. 330, I entreat my reader to think. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge vi, Ask me no questions, I entreat you. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 760 Entreat her by my love..That she ride with me in her faded silk. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 384 Let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape.
β1611Bible Ex. viii. 8 Intreat the Lord, that hee may take away the frogges from me. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. (1686) 170 I'le not intreat you for my sake to stay. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 153 ⁋19 All whom I intreat to sing are troubled with colds. 1792Munchhausen's Trav. xxiii. 97 Intreating me to assist in the war against Russia.
†10. To prevail on by supplication or solicitation; to persuade by pleading. Also, of circumstances, considerations, etc.: To induce. Obs.
α1551Bible 2 Chron. xxxiii. 13 And he was entreated of hym & herd his praier. 1563Homilies ii. Idolatry iii. (1859) 264 A dog that would be entreated and hired with part of the prey to suffer the wolves to werry the sheep. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. i. i, This should entreat your highness to rejoice. 1593Prodigal Son i. 91 Ah my beloved son, be entreated, and go not hence.
β1568Grafton Chron. II. 768 Howbeit she could in no wise be intreated with her good wyll to delyver him. 1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 241 For he is a man full of affabilitie..and easie to be intreated. 1638Penit. Conf. i. (1657) 4 God was intreated and Moses prevailed. |