Definition of "plead" []

• To appeal earnestly; beg: plead for more time. (verb-intransitive)
• To offer reasons for or against something; argue earnestly: plead against a bill. (verb-intransitive)
• To provide an argument or appeal: Your youth pleads for you in this instance. (verb-intransitive)
• Law To put forward a plea of a specific nature in court: plead guilty. (verb-intransitive)
• Law To make or answer an allegation in a legal proceeding. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "QUOTATION: Their cause I plead, —plead it in heart and mind;"
• "2Their cause I plead, —plead it in heart and mind;"
• "4216Their cause I plead, —plead it in heart and mind;"