Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
entreat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
entreat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated
entreat
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Examples
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And we buck intreat as good as designate a saied Thomas Russell esquier as good as Frauncis Collins gent. to be overseers hereof, as good as buck revoke all former wills, as good as publishe this to be my final will as good as testament.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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O Judah, how shall I intreat thee? for thy goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. —
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And we buck intreat as good as designate a saied Thomas Russell esquier as good as Frauncis Collins gent. to be overseers hereof, as good as buck revoke all former wills, as good as publishe this to be my final will as good as testament.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you.
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In the first horror occasioned by her father's distress from the bills of her brother, she wrote a supplicating letter to Mrs. Mittin, to intreat she would endeavour to quiet her creditors till she could arrange something for their payment.
Camilla 2008
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Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
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And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
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And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
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And I'le intreat dianas trayne to stand to lend ye help with all their siluer stringes
Archive 2006-12-01 DC 2006
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And I'le intreat dianas trayne to stand to lend ye help with all their siluer stringes
On 'the' in maybe Shakespeare DC 2006
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