- (n.) Entreaty.
- (v.t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
- (v.t.) To treat with or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
- (v.i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
- (v.i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
- (v.t.) To invite; to entertain.
- (v.t.) To treat or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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