Entreating vbl. sb.

[f. ENTREAT v. + -ING¹.] The action of the verb ENTREAT in various senses.

  1.  a. Treatment (of); dealing (with a person).

1529.  More, Heresyes, II. Wks. 190/2. Thanke me for y^e good intreting of them both.

1594.  Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 193. Subiections, bondages, and ill intreatings.

1614.  J. Day, Festivals (1615), 164. What S^t Austen tels vs … to put vs in minde of the good intreating of our Servants.

  b.  Discussion (of); dealing (with a subject).

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 234. In the entreatynge of these matters.

1551.  Turner, Herbal, I. K j a. One of them is spoken of in the intreatyng of Camomyll.

1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Maniement, a handling, a vsing, an intreating.

  c.  Negotiation.

1599.  Hakluyt, Voy., II. 89. A towne that will heare intreatings is halfe lost.

  2.  Beseeching.

1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turkes (1638), 52. Yet had he with great intreating so preuailed.