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Intreat

verb

Verb

1
Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to asking or pleading.; To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour); to beseech, to implore. transitive
"If you be ſhe, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me ſpeake the meſſage I am ſent on."
2
Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to asking or pleading.; To earnestly ask or beg (someone); to beseech, to implore. transitive
"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: […]"
3
Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to asking or pleading.; To try to influence or persuade (someone); to induce, to prevail upon. obsolete, transitive
"[S]he could in no wiſe be intreated with her good vyll to delyuer him, […]"
4
Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to asking or pleading.; Often followed by for: to ask earnestly or to beg for a benefit, favour, etc.; to appeal, to plead. intransitive
"[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: […]"
5
Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to asking or pleading.; To make a petition or request on behalf of someone; to intercede, to plead. archaic, intransitive
"Wil ye accepte ye perſonne of God, and intreate for him?"

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6
Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.; To act towards or deal with (someone or something) in a specified manner; to handle, to treat. obsolete, transitive
"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."
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Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.; Sometimes followed by of or upon: to give an account or description of a matter; to deal with. intransitive, obsolete
"[T]he moſt admirable myſtery of Nature, in my mind, is the turning of yron touched vvith the loadſtone, tovvard the North-pole, of vvhich I ſhall have farther occaſion to intreate, […]"
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Archaic spelling of entreat.; Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.; Often followed by about, for, or of: to discuss or negotiate, especially in order to reach a settlement. intransitive, obsolete
"And this mariage agreed vpon (which ſemeth more likely to be intreated of then cõcluded [i.e., than concluded]."

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