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[ɛnˈtriːt], (Verb)
Definitions:
- ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
(e.g: his friends entreated him not to go)
- treat (someone) in a specified manner
(e.g: the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her)
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘treat, act towards (someone)’; formerly also as intreat): from Old French entraitier, based on traitier ‘to treat’, from Latin tractare ‘to handle’
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