entreatedadj.n.
/ᵻnˈtriːtᵻd/, /ɛnˈtriːtᵻd/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtridᵻd/, /ɛnˈtridᵻd/ A. adj.† 2. Of a maxim or proposition: proposed or assumed but not proven. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
1. Of a person: that is or has been entreated; beseeched, implored, begged. Also of a thing: that is or has been entreated for.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > requested
askedOE
entreated1567
inquired1598
petitioned1609
craved1614
sued-for1615
mendicateda1643
invited1658
implored1659
solicited1833
1567 H. G. tr. G. Boccaccio Pleasaunt Disport Diuers Noble Personages i. f. 7 The intreated Gentlewoman smiling, thus aunswered: Willingly.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd x. 117 How much more advantageous..would an intreated promise have been, then a forced offerture?
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 224 I will lead you through no more extrauagancies, lest your entreated patience turne into exoticke passion.
1725 Misc. Poems by Young Gentleman 32 The penurious Indigence of this, Blasts all the Hopes of my entreated Bliss.
1772 Town & Country Mag. July 365/2 The captain seconded Mrs. Toke's request..and to the said parlour led the intreated lady ‘nothing loth’.
1815 C. Lloyd tr. V. Alfieri Mary Stuart iii. iv, in Trag. II. 281 Ormond the entreated audience obtain'd.
1831 P. Leicester Arthur of Brittany III. xvi. 294 [He] offered to the Miramolin of Morocco, to change his religion and became a Mahometan, in return for his entreated assistance.
1909 Watson's Jeffersonian Mag. Feb. 153/2 Almost invariably the entreated citizen would mutter some objection, and pass on.
1920 Judge 7 Feb. 34/3 The chief pleading is done by a smoothly persuasive 'cello... Once the entreated one has accepted, there follows a joyous, airy waltz.
2007 G. Loughlin Queer Theol. vii. 121 The entreated kiss evokes multiple intimacies.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [adjective] > fallacious > begged or assumed without proof
precarious1642
entreated1646
petitionary1646
petitory1830
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 296 Which we shall labour to induce not from postulates and entreated Maximes. View more context for this quotation
B. n.
With the. An entreated person. Somewhat rare.
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1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd ii. 33 There is a great distance betweene the intreater and the intreated.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. vi. 270 Do them [sc. favours] readily, for the intreater submits himself to the intreated.
1884 Disciple of Christ 15 Oct. 623/1 There are many occasions when some one could be gratified and benefitted by a yielding to appeals which would require no sacrifice of principle on the part of the entreated.
2016 G. Petridou in A. Weissenrieder & G. Etzelmüller Relig. & Illness xiv. 319 Physical contact between the entreated and the supplicant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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