[ɛnˈtriːt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
(e.g: his friends entreated him not to go)

- treat (someone) in a specified manner
(e.g: the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘treat, act towards (someone)’; formerly also as intreat): from Old French entraitier, based on traitier ‘to treat’, from Latin tractare ‘to handle’