1. a. Of a thing: That admits of being taken in hand, treated of, or discussed. b. Of a person: That admits of being dealt with, manageable.
1548. Gest, Pr. Masse, D viij. The next entretable matter is yt ye sayd sacrifice is [etc.].
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 499. That you should not haue hadd a more entreatable aunswerer.
2. That can be prevailed on by entreaty; compliant, placable.
1556. Abp. Parker, Psalter xc. Most pityfull: intreatable in hart.
1576. Newton, trans. Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 210. Quicke, testy, not entreatable.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. vii. 70. A man of a softer, and more intreatable condition.
a. 1718. Penn, Tracts, Wks. 1726, I. 900. Be Intreatable.
Hence Entreatableness, the quality of being ‘easy to be entreated.’
1534. Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, I. (1540), 39. There is nothynge more laudable nor comly in a great and noble man, than … facylite and easynesse, and entretablenesse.
