entreat (entret)

[Formerly also intreat; There was oure Lord first scourged; for he was scourged and vileynsly entreted in many places. Mandeville, Travels, p. 95. IMG:content-0559.png:[blocks in formation] And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. Ruth i. 16. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. Here his Brother John submits himself to him, and with. great shew of Penitence intreats his Pardon, which he readily granted. Baker , Chronicles, p. 65. 4. To prevail on by prayer or solicitation; persuade or cause to yield by entreaty. I entreat you with me home to dinner. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. 2 Sam. xxiv. 25. It were a fruitle attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers. =Syn. 3. Ask, Request, Beg, etc. See ask1. See list under beseech. II. in trans. 11. To treat of something; dis IMG:content-0560.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0561.jpg:[blocks in formation] "entertainment, conversation" (Nares). Polonius is speak country or over the world wherever customers ing to his daughter, Ophelia: From this time Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate Than a command to parley. Shak . , Hamlet, i. 3. entreaty (en-trēti), n.; pl. entreaties (-tiz). [Formerly also entreatie , in treaty , intreatie ; treaty , q. v.] 14. Treatment; entertainment; reception. are found: as, London is the great entrepôt of the world; Shanghai and Hong kong are en trepôts for China. [Now the principal use of the word.] The gold coinage of Tarentum is evidence of its wealth, which it owed partly to the richne of its products, both terrestrial and marine, but still more to the excellence of its landlocked harbour, and to the convenience of its situation as an entrepôt for the commerce of Greece and Egypt. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 408. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 251. entrepreneur (on-tr-pré-ner'), n. [F., prendre , undertake: see enterprise .] One who undertakes a large industrial enterprise; a con The Emperour. vsed no ill entreatie towards them. Seeing banishment with lo of goods is likely to betide you all, prepare yourselves for this hard entreaty . John Penry , in L. Bacon's Genesis of New Eng. [Churches, p. 192. Yet if those cunning palates hither come, They shall find guests' entreaty , and good room. B. Jonson, Epicæne, Prol. 2. Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pre ing solicitation; supplication. I am not made of stone, But penetrable to your kind entreaties . Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. Neither force nor in treaty could gain any thing upon these Shepherds. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 462. Yet not with brawling opposition she, But manifold entreaties , many a tear,.. Besought him. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. =Syn. 2. Request, Appeal, etc. (see prayer ), solicitation, importunity.