entreating

Verb

entreat (third-person singular simple present entreats, present participle entreating, simple past and past participle entreated)

1. (transitive) 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.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   supplicate

2. (transitive) 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, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:8, signature F3, verso, column 1
3. (obsolete, transitive) 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, Richard Grafton, “Edwarde the Fift”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye...
4. (intransitive) Often followed by for: to ask earnestly or to beg for a benefit, favour, etc.; to appeal, to plead.
   • [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: […]1569, Richard Grafton, “The Seuenth Age, and Seuenth Part of this Chronicle. Henrye the Sixt.”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume I, London: […] Henry...
5. (archaic, intransitive) 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 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Job xiij:[8], folio...
6. (obsolete, transitive) To act towards or deal with (someone or something) in a specified manner; to handle, to treat.
   • 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.1536 June 19 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, translated by [anonymous], The Sermon that the Reuerende Father in Christ, Hugh Latimer, Byshop of Worcester, Made to the Clergie, in...

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