Definition of "entreat"

If you be she, I doe intreat your patience.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door

1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review‎, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […]

If my tongue cannot intreate you to acquit mee, will you commaund me to vſe my legges?

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, [Act EPILOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]

It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.

1789, John Rogers, The Nature and Influence of the Fear of God (sermon)

“But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […]

One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true

1937, Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney

pleasures to entreat

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 53

of which I shall have further occasion to intreate

1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […]

Alexander […] was first that entreated of true peace with them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Maccabees 10:47

Fairly let her be entreated.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Jeremiah 15:11

Let my entreats of Love prevail so far, / When for your happinesse they spoken are: […]

1661, Samuel Pordage, Mundorum Explicatio

In the Muslim world, the most compelling and decisive books are those full of confessions written on the flesh of victims, and the most earnest prayers are the entreats for mercy screamed in pain and anguish at the tormentors and flesh and thought.

2006, Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books‎, Rowman & Littlefield, page 236