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▪ I. entreaty, n.|ɛnˈtriːtɪ|
Forms: α. 6–7 entreatie, 7– entreaty. β. 6 intreati(e, (-tye, -die, intrety), 7–9 intreaty.
[f. entreat v. + -y.]
†1. Treatment (of persons); handling. Also management (of cattle). Obs.
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. 16 You have founde worse entreatie att my handes. 1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf C vj, For if the Spaniard..did..beare away harde intreadie for hys vnwonted pryde towards vs. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 561, I have also recited before in another place of the intreaty of Oxen. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea 224 He would give us our lives with good entreatie. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 22 The Lord Privy Seal..gave civil entreaty when the Esquire Beadles..came to him.
†b. Reception (of guests), entertainment. Obs.
1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. Prol., They shall find guests entreaty, and good roome. 1615Chapman Odyss. xv. 679 None that could bestow Your fit entreaty.
†2. Treatment, discussion, investigation (of a question, subject, etc.). Obs.
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 26 Before I entered into the entreatie of battailes. 1538Starkey England i. i. 24 The intrety of materys of the commyn wele. 1570Billingsley Euclid iv. Introd. 110 The maner of entreatie in this booke is diuers from the entreaty of the former bookes. a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1661) 172 Whereout ariseth naturally the entreaty of these four points.
†3. Negotiation (of a peace). Obs.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxix. 305 Then it was ordayned..to treat with the erle Mountfort..on y⊇ state of peace..And at the first entreaty therle Mountfort answered, etc. 1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 627 By truce and entreaties of Peace.
4. Earnest request, solicitation, supplication.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 9, I wil not do ani thing for intreati. 1611Bible Prov. xviii. 23 The poore vseth intreaties, but the rich answereth roughly. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 7/1 The Prince..by his humble and importunate entreaty..in the end prevailed. 1726Addison Dial. Medals (1727) 40 To move his haughty soul they try Intreaties, and perswasion soft apply. 1821Byron Two Foscari i. i, Alas! my life Has been one long entreaty. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 339 The judges..shall be inaccessible to entreaties.
▪ II. † enˈtreaty, v. Obs.
[a. OFr. entraiti-er: see entreat v.]
intr. = entreat 4.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxxvi. 746 They of Gaunt had a saue conduct..to entreatie for a peace. |