entreat
verbEtymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English entreten (“to deal with (someone) in a specified way; to concern oneself with (something); to deal with or give an account of (a topic); to engage in negotiation; to intercede for (someone); to plead with (someone)”), from Anglo-Norman entraiter, entretier (“to concern oneself with (something); to deal with (someone) in a specified manner; to have a conversation with (someone); to negotiate (with someone, or about something)”), Middle French entraiter, entraictier, and Old French entraictier (“to have a conversation with (someone); to concern oneself with (something)”), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + traiter (“to be concerned with (something); to treat (someone) in a specified way”) (from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to handle, manage; to drag, haul”), from trahō (“to drag, pull; etc.”) (see that entry for the further etymology) + -tō (frequentative suffix)). The noun is derived from Late Middle English entrete (“agreement; negotiation; treatment of a subject in discourse”), from the verb.
- derived from tractāre
- derived from entraictier — “to have a conversation with (someone); to concern oneself with (something)”
- derived from entraiter
- derived from entraiter
- inherited from entreten — “to deal with (someone) in a specified way; to concern oneself with (something); to deal with or give an account of (a topic); to engage in negotiation; to intercede for (someone); to plead with (someone)”
Definitions
Senses relating to asking or pleading.
- If you be ſhe, I doe intreat your patience / To heare me ſpeake the meſſage I am ſent on.
- My Lord vve muſt entreate the time alone.
- Our tyred lymbes, bruſ'd in the morning fight, / Intreat ſoft reſt, and gentle huſht repoſe.
Senses relating to dealing with or negotiating.
- Vncle, you ſay the Queene is at your houſe, / For Gods ſake fairely let her be intreated.
- Is it not enough that my aunt, her mother [Catherine of Aragon], was evil entreated by the king [Henry VIII] that dead is, but my cousin [Mary I of England] must be worse ordered by councillors now.
Synonym of entreaty (“an act of asking earnestly or begging for something”)
Synonym of entreaty (“an act of asking earnestly or begging for something”); an appeal, a plea.
- Let my entreats of Love prevail ſo far, / VVhen for your happineſſe they ſpoken are: / Be not a Captive to the vvorld, but be / One unto Heav'n, and that is to be free.
- […] I began a little chat with my fair companion, who remained standing, notwithstanding my repeated entreates that she would be seated.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at entreat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at entreat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at entreat
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA