a. Obs. Also in-. [f. ENTREAT + -IVE.] Of the nature of an entreaty; characterized by entreaty.
1607. A. Brewer, Lingua, I. i. in Hazl., Dodsley, IX. 341. And oft embellish’d my entreative phrase.
1650. Don Bellianis, 139. The Soldan would not free the Knight of the golden Image, and the Duke, by intreative means.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), V. viii. 100. All gentle, all intreative, my accent.
