Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-TREAT', v.t. [Fr. en and traiter, It. trattare, Sp. and Port. tratar, from L. tracto, to handle, feel, treat, use, manage.]

1. To ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to solicit pressingly; to importune. Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife. Gen. xxv
2. To prevail on by prayer or solicitation. Hence in the passive form, to be prevailed on; to yield to entreaty. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power, whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.
3. To treat, in any manner; properly, to use or manage; but I believe, entreat is always applied to persons, as treat is to persons or things. Applied to persons, to entreat is to use, or to deal with; to manifest to others any particular deportment, good or ill. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. The Egyptians evil-entreated us. Deut. xxvi. [In this application, the prefix en is now dropped, and treat is used.]
4. To entertain; to amuse. [Obs.] Shak.
5. To entertain; to receive. [Obs.] Spenser.