entreat

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.

Senses relating to asking or pleading.

Then Pharaoh called for Moſes and Aaron, and ſaid, Intreat the Lord, that hee may take away the frogges from me, and from my people: […]

Go vvhen you vvill, (ſaid Agamemnon) fly, / Ile not entreat you for my ſake to ſtay.

Senses relating to asking or pleading.

[S]he could in no wiſe be intreated with her good vyll to delyuer him, […]

This ſhould intreat your highneſſe to reioice, / Since Fortune giues you opportunity, / To gaine the tytle of a Conquerour, […]

Senses relating to asking or pleading.

[T]he rayſing of people, and aſſemble of Souldiours by him, could ſignifie no peace, nor treatie of concorde: except a man ſhould ſaye, that intreating for fauour with naked ſworde in hande, were an humble ſubmiſſion and a meeke requeſt: […]

Still ſhe intreats, and prettily intreats, / For to a prettie eare ſhe tunes her tale.

Senses relating to asking or pleading.

Wil ye accepte yͤ perſonne of God, and intreate for him?

That if ſhe loue me, I charge her to loue thee: if ſhe vvill not, I vvill neuer haue her, vlneſſe thou intreat for her: […]

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.