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Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them.

1 Mac. x. 47.

2. To make an earnest petition or request.

The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.

Knolles.

En*treat", n. Entreaty. [Obs.] Ford.

En*treat"a*ble (?), a. That may be entreated.

En*treat"ance (?), n. Entreaty. [Obs.] Fairfax.

En*treat"er (?), n. One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.

En*treat"ful (?), a. Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.

En*treat"ing*ly, adv. In an entreating manner.

En*treat"ive (?), a. Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

En*treat"ment (?), n. Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] Shak.

En*treat"y, n.; pl. Entreaties (&?;). 1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.

Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment.

Spenser.

Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.

||En`trée" (?), n. [F. See Entry.] 1. A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

2. (Cookery) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

||En`tre*mets" (?), n. sing. & pl. [F., fr. entre between + mets a dish, mess.] 1. (Cookery) A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

2. Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [R.]

En*trench" (?), v. t. See Intrench.

||En`tre*pôt" (?), n. [F.] A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

||En`tre*pre*neur" (?), n. [F. See Enterprise.] (Polit. Econ.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

||En`tre*sol" (?), n. [F.] (Arch.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine. Parker.

En*trick" (?), v. t. [Cf. OE. entriken to perplex, OF. entriquer. Cf. Trick, Intrigue.] To trick, to perplex. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

En"tro*chal (?), a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.