Meaning of intreat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Archaic spelling of entreat.
   transitive
2. Senses relating to asking or pleading.
   transitive
3. To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour); to beseech, to implore.
   transitive
4. To earnestly ask or beg (someone); to beseech, to implore.
   transitive
5. To try to influence or persuade (someone); to induce, to prevail upon.
   obsolete, transitive
6. Often followed by for: to ask earnestly or to beg for a benefit, favour, etc.; to appeal, to plead.
   intransitive
7. To make a petition or request on behalf of someone; to intercede, to plead.
   archaic, intransitive
8. Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
   obsolete, transitive
9. To act towards or deal with (someone or something) in a specified manner; to handle, to treat.
   obsolete, transitive
10. Sometimes followed by of or upon: to give an account or description of a matter; to deal with.
    intransitive, obsolete
11. Often followed by about, for, or of: to discuss or negotiate, especially in order to reach a settlement.
    intransitive, obsolete

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.”

“Sir, I have made ſo ill uſe of your former favors, as by them to be encouraged to intreat that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book; […]”

“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.”

“[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.”

“VVith a hundred bleſsings and many praiers thou intreatſt mee to loue thee.”

“I haue beene vvooed as I intreat thee novv, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull god of vvarre, / VVhoſe ſinovvie necke in battel nere did bovv, / VVho conquers vvhere he comes in euerie iarre, […]”

“If my tongue cannot intreate you to acquit mee, vvill you commaund me to vſe my legges?”

“Indeprecable […] that vvill not be intreated, or moved to yeeld.”

“Then I asked him, VVhat I muſt do vvhen I came? and he told me, I muſt intreat upon my knees vvith all my heart and ſoul, the Father to reveal him to me.”

“[I]f this terror [the fear of God] vvere merely that ſervile dread vvhich repreſents God as an implacable, inexorable being, the ſoul under ſuch an impreſſion vvould ſit dovvn unactive, overvvhelmed vvith an horrible deſpair; and never engage in a fruitleſs attempt to appeaſe a povver, vvhom no prayers could intreat, no repentance reconcile.”

“The curioſity of the lady vvas highly inflamed, to knovv the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, vvhich ſhe intreated the bird vvith all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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, […]”

“[Y]ou ſhould diigently vveigh and conſider the matter vvhereof Paul intreateth: for he intreateth of the vvord of God, vvhich can never be maginified enough.”

“And this mariage agreed vpon (which ſemeth more likely to be intreated of then cõcluded [i.e., than concluded].”

“Ile ſend ſome holy Biſhop to intreat: / For God forbid, ſo many ſimple ſoules / Should periſh by the Svvord.”

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