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of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser.

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty. A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. Bacon.

To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt. [Obs. or Archaic] It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. Thackeray.

osition assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. "Call of the trumpet." Shak. I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. Milton.

o discourse; to confer. [Obs.] Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton.

ummoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration. We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; . . . Under this conjuration speak, my lord. Shak.

Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] Milton.

Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.

Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and…

Entreaty. [Obs.] Ford.

Entreaty. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] Shak.

Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender. Milton.

To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Entreaty. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] Shak.