† over-inˈtreat, v. Obs.
[over- 11, 10.]
trans. a. To prevail upon by entreaties (to do something); to over-persuade. b. To persuade to come over.
| a 1639 W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 81 Either over-intreated, or by threatenings overborne, to doe some evill thing at a superiours motion. 1658 Whole Duty Man viii. §19 They have at the first been over-intreated to take a cup, after that another. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Bedfordshire (1662) 117 John Coles Esquire of Somerset-shire over⁓intreated him into the western parts. |