intreat

verb18

1. •
   To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour).

   • If you be she, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me speake the message I am sent on. — 1590
2. •
   To earnestly ask or beg (someone); to beseech, to implore.

   • 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: […] — 1611
3. •
   Often followed by for: to ask earnestly or to beg for a benefit, favour, etc.; to appeal, to plead.

   • Still she intreats, and prettily intreats, / For to a prettie eare she tunes her tale. — 1593
4. •
   To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour); to beseech, to implore.

   • If you be she, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me speake the message I am sent on. — 1590
5. •
   To earnestly ask or beg (someone); to beseech, to implore.

   • 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: […] — 1611
6. •
   Often followed by for: to ask earnestly or to beg for a benefit, favour, etc.; to appeal, to plead.

   • 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, […] — 1677
7. •
   (no longer used) To try to influence or persuade (someone); to induce, to prevail upon.

   • [S]he could in no wise be intreated with her good vyll to delyuer him, […] — 1569
8. •
   (no longer used) To make a petition or request on behalf of someone; to intercede, to plead.

   • Wil ye accepte yͤ personne of God, and intreate for him? — 1535
9. •
   (no longer used) To act towards or deal with (someone or something) in a specified manner; to handle, to treat.

   • Vncle, you say the Queene is at your house, / For Gods sake fairely let her be intreated. — 1595
10. •
    (no longer used) To discuss or negotiate (something); also, to discuss or negotiate with (someone).

    • [T]hey entreated the sayd companyons and offred them golde⸝ and syluer⸝ and passage: […] — 1523
11. •
    (no longer used) Often followed by about, for, or of: to discuss or negotiate, especially in order to reach a settlement.

    • [W]hiles yͤ bones of Marcello were a brẽning [brenning, i.e., burning], she was entreting to mary an other husbãd [husband], […] — 1531
12. •
    (no longer used) To try to influence or persuade (someone); to induce, to prevail upon.

    • [S]he could in no wise be intreated with her good vyll to delyuer him, […] — 1569
13. •
    (no longer used) To make a petition or request on behalf of someone; to intercede, to plead.

    • Wil ye accepte ye personne of God, and intreate for him? — 1535
14. •
    (no longer used) To act towards or deal with (someone or something) in a specified manner; to handle, to treat.

    • Vncle, you say the Queene is at your house, / For Gods sake fairely let her be intreated. — 1595
15. •
    (no longer used) Sometimes followed by of or upon: to give an account or description of a matter; to deal with.

    • [O]f all these seuerally I intend to intreate in the folovving chapters. — 1610
16. •
    (no longer used) Sometimes followed by of or upon: to give an account or description of a matter; to deal with.

    • [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, […] — 1627
17. •
    (no longer used) Often followed by about, for, or of: to discuss or negotiate, especially in order to reach a settlement.

    • And this mariage agreed vpon (which semeth more likely to be intreated of then cõcluded [i.e., than concluded]. — 1569
18. •
    [with oneself] (no longer used) To occupy oneself with (something).

    • The Gardin of Proserpina […] she often vsd from open heat / Her selfe to shroud, and pleasures to entreat. — 1590