entreat

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENTRE'AT, verb intransitive To make an earnest petition or request. The Janizaries entreated for them, as valiant men. 1. To offer a treaty. [Not used.] 2. To treat; to discourse. [Not used.]
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