1. A negotiator; an agent; a mediator.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cccxiv. 483. Then these Entreatours went and made report to their lordes.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 477. This mocion succeded worse then the entreators deuised.
2. One who makes a petition; a suitor.
1588. J. Udall, Demonstr. Discip. (Arb.), 9. [They] haue reiected a request so holy … yea, and handled the intreaters … so cruelly.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 564. It seemed … to be vnlawfull … that the Martyrs should be Intreatours.
1673. O. Walker, Education, 260 (F. Hall).
