† enˈtreatable, inˈtreatable, a. Obs.
[f. entreat v. + -able.]
1. a. Of a thing: That admits of being taken in hand, treated of, or discussed. b. Of a person: That admits of being dealt with, manageable.
| 1548 Gest Pr. Masse D viij, The next entretable matter is y{supt} y⊇ sayd sacrifice is, etc. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 499 That you should not have hadd a more entreatable aunswerer. |
2. That can be prevailed on by entreaty; compliant, placable.
| 1556 Abp. Parker Psalter xc, Most pityfull: intreatable in hart. 1576 Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 210 Quicke, testy, not entreatable. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. vii. 70 A man of a softer, and more intreatable condition. a 1718 Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 900 Be Intreatable. |
Hence enˈtreatableness, the quality of being ‘easy to be entreated’.
| 1534 Whittinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 39 There is nothynge more laudable nor comly in a great and noble man, than..facylite and easynesse, and entretablenesse. |