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† enˈtreater Obs.
[f. entreat v. + -er.]
1. A negotiator; an agent; a mediator.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxiv. 483 Then these Entreatours went and made report to their lordes. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 477 This mocion succeded worse than the entreators devised.
2. One who makes a petition; a suitor.
1588J. Udall Demonstr. Discip. (Arb.) 9 [They] haue reiected a request so holy..yea, and handled the intreaters..so cruelly. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 564 It seemed..to be vnlawfull..that the Martyrs should be Intreatours. 1673O. Walker Education 270 (F. Hall). |