entreat
verb
[ ɪnˈtriːt ]
• ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
• "his friends entreated him not to go"
Similar:
implore,
beseech,
beg,
plead with,
supplicate,
pray,
ask,
request,
bid,
enjoin,
appeal to,
call on,
petition,
solicit,
exhort,
urge,
importune,
crave,
impetrate,
obtest,
obsecrate,
• treat (someone) in a specified manner.
• "the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her"
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’.
