Definition
| • | To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. |
| • | To invite; to entertain. |
| • | To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty. |
| • | To make an earnest petition or request. |
| • | Entreaty. |
