entreatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹiːt/, /ənˈtɹiːt/, /ɛnˈtɹiːt/
• 韻: -iːt

動詞

entreat (三人称単数 現在形 entreats, 現在分詞 entreating, 過去形および過去分詞形 entreated)

1. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
   • c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     If you be she, I doe intreat your patience.

   • 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review‎^[1], volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], OCLC 1015246566:

     some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door

2. To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, OCLC 55178895, [Act EPILOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     If my tongue cannot intreate you to acquit mee, will you commaund me to vſe my legges?

   • 1789, John Rogers, The Nature and Influence of the Fear of God (sermon)

     It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777:

     “But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”

   • 1937, Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney:

     One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true

3. (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VII, stanza 53:

     pleasures to entreat

4. (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
   • 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Povver and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the VVorld. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and VVilliam Turner, […], OCLC 863459859:

     of which I shall have further occasion to intreate

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Maccabees 10:47:

     Alexander […] was first that entreated of true peace with them.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To make an earnest petition or request.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Fairly let her be entreated.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Jeremiah 15:11:

     I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.