intreat

1. Archaic spelling of entreat.Examples: "If you be ſhe, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me ſpeake the meſſage I am ſent on."; "Our tyred lymbes, bruſ'd in the morning fight, / Intreat ſoft reſt, and gentle huſht repoſe."; "And the daughter of Tyre ſhall be there with a gift, euen the rich among the people ſhall intreate thy fauour."transitive

2. Archaic spelling of entreat.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: […]"; "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; […]"; "His spear gored thy breast, O Ethelwold; though with supplications thou intreatedst him to spare thy life."transitive

3. Archaic spelling of entreat.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. Archaic spelling of entreat.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: […]"; "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, […]"; "[S]he diſdains and threatens, and again is humble, and intreats; and nothing availing, deſpairs, curſes, and at laſt becomes her ovvn Executioner."intransitive

5. Archaic spelling of entreat.Examples: "Wil ye accepte ye 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. Archaic spelling of entreat.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."; "The Lord ſaid, Uerely it ſhall be well with thy remnant, verely I will cauſe the enemie to intreat thee well in the time of euill, and in the time of affliction."obsoletetransitive