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intreat (third-person singular simple present intreats, present participle intreating, simple past and past participle intreated)

  1. Archaic form of entreat.
    • 1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: [] Richard Field, [], →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:

      I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; []

    • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 12:

      The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.