entreat

1. Senses relating to asking or pleading.Examples: "If you be ſhe, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me ſpeake the meſſage I am ſent on."; "My Lord vve muſt entreate the time alone."; "Our tyred lymbes, bruſ'd in the morning fight, / Intreat ſoft reſt, and gentle huſht repoſe."Synonyms: supplicatetransitive

2. Senses relating to asking or pleading.Examples: "Then Pharaoh called for Moſes and Aaron, and ſaid, Intreat the Lord, that hee may take away the frogges from me, and from my people: […]"; "Go vvhen you vvill, (ſaid Agamemnon) fly, / Ile not entreat you for my ſake to ſtay."; "And here I muſt intreat the Reader to preſerve his full freedom of mind intire, and not vveakly ſuffer his judgment to be overborn by your imagination and your prejudices, by Ghoſts and Viſions, and above all by that extreme ſatisfaction and complacency vvith vvhich you utter your ſtrange conceits; […]"transitive

3. Senses relating to asking or pleading.Examples: "[S]he could in no wiſe be intreated with her good vyll to delyuer him, […]"; "This ſhould intreat your highneſſe to reioice, / Since Fortune giues you opportunity, / To gaine the tytle of a Conquerour, […]"; "No ſolace could her Paramour intreat / Her once to ſhovv, ne court, ne dalliaunce, / But vvith bent lovvring brovves, as ſhe vvould threat, / She ſcould, and frovvnd vvith frovvard countenaunce, / Vnvvorthy of faire Ladies comely gouernaunce."obsoletetransitive

4. Senses relating to asking or pleading.Examples: "[T]he rayſing of people, and aſſemble of Souldiours by him, could ſignifie no peace, nor treatie of concorde: except a man ſhould ſaye, that intreating for fauour with naked ſworde in hande, were an humble ſubmiſſion and a meeke requeſt: […]"; "Still ſhe intreats, and prettily intreats, / For to a prettie eare ſhe tunes her tale."; "Theſe are the motives, vvhich t' induce, / Or fright us into Love, you uſe, / […] / Like ſturdy Beggers, that intreat, / For Charity, at once, and threat, […]"intransitive

5. Senses relating to asking or pleading.Examples: "Wil ye accepte yͤ perſonne of God, and intreate for him?"; "That if ſhe loue me, I charge her to loue thee: if ſhe vvill not, I vvill neuer haue her, vlneſſe thou intreat for her: […]"; "[T]hey […] charg'd me on paine / Of their diſpleaſure, neither to ſpeake of him, / Intreat for him, nor in any vvay ſuſtaine him."archaicintransitive

6. (obsolete) Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.Examples: "And here I ſpeake of the generation, wherby they doo engender, and not of that, wherby they are engendred, becauſe it ſhuld be to long to intreate, howe the chyldren of lyght are ingendred, and how they come in at the doore: and howe the children of the world be engendred, and come in an other way."; "Vncle, you ſay the Queene is at your houſe, / For Gods ſake fairely let her be intreated."; "Is it not enough that my aunt, her mother [Catherine of Aragon], was evil entreated by the king [Henry VIII] that dead is, but my cousin [Mary I of England] must be worse ordered by councillors now."obsoletetransitive