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.