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e, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. [Obs.] And their importune fates all satisfied. Spenser. Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual. Bacon.

In an importune manner. [Obs.]

One who importunes.

To importune again.

mission. The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.

assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. Evelyn.

hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune. "Entreat my wife to come." "I do entreat your patience." Shak. I must entreat of you some of that money. Shak. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. Poe. Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife. Gen. x…

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. [Archaic] Carcyle.

poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also chimney money, etc. He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. Macaulay.

One who importunes; an importuner. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

Reference; respect; regard. I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry. Dryden.