"intreat" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: intreats [present, singular, third-person], intreating [participle, present], intreated [participle, past], intreated [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} intreat (third-person singular simple present intreats, present participle intreating, simple past and past participle intreated)
  1. Archaic form of entreat. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: entreat
    Sense id: en-intreat-en-verb-W-4FaOvn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "As discontent for want of merth or meat;\nNo solace could her paramour intreat",
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          "ref": "1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:",
          "text": "I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]",
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          "text": "The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.",
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