entreat
Etymology
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Etymology
From Middle English entreten, from Anglo-Norman entretier, from Old French entraiter, from en- + traiter.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɪnˈtɹiːt/, /ənˈtɹiːt/, /ɛnˈtɹiːt/
entreat (entreats, present participle entreating; simple past and past participle entreated)
- To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
- 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- If you be she, I doe intreat your patience.
- 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review[S%3Aen%3AThe+American+Review%3A+A+Whig+Journal+of+Politics%2C+Literature%2C+Art%2C+and+Science%2FVolume+01%2FFebruary+1845%2FThe+Raven], volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC ↗:
- some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
- To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC ↗, [Act EPILOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- If my tongue cannot intreate you to acquit mee, will you commaund me to vſe my legges?
- 1789, John Rogers, The Nature and Influence of the Fear of God (sermon)
- It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.
- 1847 October 15, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- “But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”
- 1937, Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney:
- One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true
- (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 53:
- pleasures to entreat
- (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
- 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC ↗:
- of which I shall have further occasion to intreate
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make an earnest petition or request.
- (obsolete, transitive) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Fairly let her be entreated.
- Russian: проси́ть
entreat (plural entreats)
- An entreaty.
- 1661, Samuel Pordage, Mundorum Explicatio:
- Let my entreats of Love prevail so far, / When for your happinesse they spoken are: […]
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002