meaning of entreat
1. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
2. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
3. To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
4. To invite; to entertain.
5. To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
6. To make an earnest petition or request.
7. Entreaty.
8. ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good
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