Obs. Also 5 entrete, 6 entreate, 6–7 intreat(e. [f. next vb.; OF. had entraite, f. entraitier vb.] The action of the vb. ENTREAT. † a. Negotiation, intervention (obs.). b. Entreaty, supplication.
1485. Malory, Arthur, I. ii. By the entrete at the last the kyng & she met to gyder.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 68. By great entreate and humble sute.
a. 1592. Greene, Poems, 99. Use no entreats, I will relentless rest.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 14. I … with all the intreates that I could frame, perswaded him to entertaine that seruant of mine.
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. xlv. 4. At his entreat The wonders ceas’d.
1650[?]. Don Bellianis, 142. Which … you will not do at my intreats.
