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To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat.

See Entreat. Spenser.

Not to be entreated; inexorable.

Entreaty. [Obs.] Holland.

Full of entreaty. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Maltreat.

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

To treat wrongfully. [Obs.] Grafton.

To treat amiss; to abuse.

Wrong treatment.

Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of a graduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage…

ring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. In a retreat he oShak.

Furnishing or serving as a retreat. [R.] "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.

The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. [R.] D'Urfey.

Incapable of being treated; not practicable. [R.] Dr. H. More.

ression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

es of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.