intreat

English

Verb

intreat (third-person singular simple present intreats, present participle intreating, simple past and past participle intreated)

Archaic form of entreat.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  As discontent for want of merth or meat;
  No solace could her paramour intreat
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 17]; 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], 1594, →OCLC, lines [97–100]:
  I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]

Anagrams

iterant, natrite, nattier, nitrate, tainter, tartine, tertian

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