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† enˈtreatable, inˈtreatable, a. Obs.
[f. entreat v. + -able.]
1. a. Of a thing: That admits of being taken in hand, treated of, or discussed. b. Of a person: That admits of being dealt with, manageable.
1548Gest Pr. Masse D viij, The next entretable matter is yt y⊇ sayd sacrifice is, etc. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 499 That you should not have hadd a more entreatable aunswerer.
2. That can be prevailed on by entreaty; compliant, placable.
1556Abp. Parker Psalter xc, Most pityfull: intreatable in hart. 1576Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 210 Quicke, testy, not entreatable. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. vii. 70 A man of a softer, and more intreatable condition. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 900 Be Intreatable.
Hence enˈtreatableness, the quality of being ‘easy to be entreated’.
1534Whittinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 39 There is nothynge more laudable nor comly in a great and noble man, than..facylite and easynesse, and entretablenesse. |