Definition of "intreat" [in•treat]

• Variant of entreat. (verb)

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• "O Judah, how shall I intreat thee? for thy goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. —"
• "And we buck intreat as good as designate a saied Thomas Russell esquier as good as Frauncis Collins gent. to be overseers hereof, as good as buck revoke all former wills, as good as publishe this to be my final will as good as testament."
• "And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you."