intreat

English

Verb

intreat (third-person singular simple present intreats, present participle intreating, simple past and past participle intreated)

1. Archaic form of entreat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], 1594, →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:

     I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]

Anagrams

• iterant, natrite, nattier, nitrate, tainter, tartine, tertian