† enˈtreater Obs.
[f. entreat v. + -er.]
1. A negotiator; an agent; a mediator.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxiv. 483 Then these Entreatours went and made report to their lordes. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 477 This mocion succeded worse than the entreators devised. |
2. One who makes a petition; a suitor.
| 1588 J. Udall Demonstr. Discip. (Arb.) 9 [They] haue reiected a request so holy..yea, and handled the intreaters..so cruelly. 1624 F. White Repl. Fisher 564 It seemed..to be vnlawfull..that the Martyrs should be Intreatours. 1673 O. Walker Education 270 (F. Hall). |