0 to try very hard to persuade someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] We would spend every meal time entreating the child to eat her vegetables.
For example, people were entreated to do as they were told.
Accordingly, the traditional limits of the ' ' political questions ' ' doctrine are rejected, while courts are entreated to advance group rights and multiculturalism by undermining established notions of sovereignty and citizenship.
I entreat him to raise the tone of the debate, because we can have a good one that is based on the facts.
I entreat this and future governments to leave the new set-up for at least 50 years.
I entreat them not to persist in their present attitude.
I entreat him not to leave it too late.
Employers have been abjectly entreated to allow their men to go, and in certain cases half-crowns have been offered.
I therefore really entreat you to inform yourselves on this issue.
