Entreat

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Entreaty.

II. Entreat ·vi To make an earnest petition or request.

III. Entreat ·vt To Invite; to Entertain.

IV. Entreat ·vt To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to Use.

V. Entreat ·vi To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

VI. Entreat ·vt To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to Persuade.

VII. Entreat ·vt To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to Beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to Supplicate; to Importune.