Troste noo longer to my curtessy, 
I haue entretyd the full lentell.v. 
entreat 
"entertainment, conversation "(Xares). Polonius Is speak- 
ing to his daughter, Ophelia : 
Genervde* (R. I:'. T. s.), 1. S428. From this time . . . 
I wm cause theenemy to entreating we,,. Jer. xv. 11. fc^*-^-? KgSt'SF""" ' 
Be patient, and entreat me fair. Shak., Rich. III., Iv. 4. i ),;, ;l ,-., m mand to parley. Shak., Hamlet, L 3. 
,\.-,r,7/,. r.ut doe* your K'':i"i ."" ' J ii entreat you king- entreaty (en-tre'ti), n. ; pi. entreaties (-tiz). 
[Formerly also entreatie, intreaty, intreatie; < en- 
treat + -y, after treaty, q. v.] If. Treatment ; 
entertainment; reception. 
The Emperour . . . vsed no ill entreatie towards them. 
Hakluyt's Voyage', I. 2.M. 
Seeing banishment with loss of goods Is likely to betide 
lUnl 
<;n-t< nit;/. 'Fore (iod, 1 i hi iik ,-li.- .H'/V.IN me like a ehil.l. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, 1. 3. 
2f. To partake of; eujoy. 
A thick Arber goodly over-dight. 
In which she oftru ud from open he.-it 
Her selfo to nlimnd, and pleasures to entreat. 
Spenser, Y. Q., II. vll. 53. 
3. To ask earnestly; beseech; petition with 
urgency; supplicate; solicit pressingly ; impor- 
tune. 
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to re- 
turn from following after thee. Ruth 1. 16. 
I fn/reat you with me home to dinner. 
Skak., M. of V., iv. 1. 
Here his Brother John submit* himself to him, and with 
great shew of Penitence intreats his Pardon, which he 
readily granted. Baker, Chronicles, p. 65. 
you all, r .. r ,- _ 
[Churches, p. 192. 
Yet If those cunning palates hither come. 
They shall flint guest*' entreaty, and good room. 
B. Jonson, Epicrenc, Pro). 
2. Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing 
solicitation; supplication. 
entropy 
country or over the world wherever customers 
are found : as. London is the great entrepot of 
the world; Shanghai and Hongkong are en- 
trej>ots for China. [Now the principal use of 
the word.] 
The gold coinage of Tarentum Is evidence of its wealth, 
which It owed partly to the richness of its products, both 
terrestrial and marine, but still more to the excellence of 
its landlocked harbour, and to the convenience of Its situ- 
ation as an entrepot for the commerce of Greece and Egypt 
C. T. Xeurton, Art and Arch:ol., p. 408. 
entrepreneur (on-tr-pre-ner'), n. [F., < entre- 
):nnnre, undertake : see enterprise.] One who 
undertakes a large industrial enterprise ; a con- 
tractor. 
The most distinctive part of Mr. Walker's teaching Is 
perhaps his view that profit* i. e. , the employer's or en- 
trepreneur's, aa distinguished from the capitalist's share 
of the product of Industry cannot be reduced to the 
same category as Interest or wages. 
Westminster Ret., CXXV. 553. 
entresol (en'ter-sol or, as F., on'tr-sol), n. [P., 
. . 
seech. 
Neither force nor intreaty could gain any thing upon 
4. To prevail on by prayer or solicitation ; per- these Shepherds, 
suade or cause to yield by entreaty. Yet not with brawling opposition she, 
So the Lord was intrrated for the land, and the plague Besought him. 'Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
was stayed from Israel. 2 Sam. xxiv. 26. =g a Re uttti Appealt e tc. (see prayer), solicitation, 
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no Importunity. 
prayers could entreat. Rogers. e ntrechaunget, V. t. An obsolete form of H- 
=Syn. 3._Ask, Request, Beg, etc. See <iii. See list nn- ferchange. Chaucer. 
entrecommnnet, ' An obsolete form of in- 
tercommutie. 
entreet, . An obsolete form of entry. 
entree (on-tra'), n. [F., < OF. entree, > ME. 
entree, E. entry, q. v.] 1. Entry; freedom of 
access : as, the entree of a house. 
An eminent banker . . . asked the Minister to give him 
the entree of the Horse Guards. Quarterly Ren., CXLV. 12. 
2. A made dish served at the dinner-table be- 
tween the chief courses. 3. In music: (a) 
Formerly, a slow composition, in march rhythm, 
usually in two parts, each repeated : so called 
because often used to accompany the entry of 
processions in operas and ballets, (b) An in- 
troduction or a prelude ; especially, in an opera 
I am not made of stone, 
But penetrable to your kind entreatie, '< entre> between, + sol, ground, soil: see soil.] 
A low story between two others of greater 
height, especially one so treated architectural- 
II. intrans. If. To treat of something ; dis- 
course. 
All other kinde of poems except Eglogue, whereof shai 
be entreated hereafter, were onely recited by mouth or 
song with the voyce to some melodious instrument. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 27. 
Yet seemeth It in no casi 
treated of In the first place. 
to be omitted, but to be ' 
llakluyts Voyages, I. 563. 
2f. To treat with another or others; negotiate. 
Part of House on Boulevard Malcsherbes, Paris, t'. E, entresol. 
as the first that entreated of true peace 
1 Mac. x. 47. 
Alexander 
with them. 
Buck. What answer makes your grace to rebels' suppli- 
cation? 
K. Hen. Ill send some holy bishop to entreat. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., Iv. 4. 
8. To make an earnest petition or request. 
The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men. 
Knolles, Hist. Turks. 
ly that from the exterior it appears to form a 
single story with the one below it ; a low apart- 
ment or apartments, usually placed above the 
ground floor. Also entersole, mezzanine story. 
They could take the premier now, Instead of the little 
or a ballet, the next movement after the over- entresol of the hotel they occupied. Thackeray. 
ture ; an intrada. 4. The act of entering; en- entreteH, ' A Middle English form of entreat. 
trance: as, his entree was very effective. entrete-t, n. [ME., < OF. entrait, entraict, en- 
tret, m., also entraite, f., a bandage used in 
From my sovereign's mouth, 
Lady, you are Invited, the chief guest : 
His edict bears command, but kind entreats 
Summon your lovely presence. 
Beau, and Fl. (T), Faithful Friends, ill. 2. 
Wear not your knees 
In such entreats. 
Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, i. 1. 
entreatable (en-tre'ta-bl), a. [< entreat + 
-able. ] Susceptible of being entreated, or read- 
ily influenced by entreaty. Hvloet. 
entreatancet (en-tre'tans), n. [< entreat + 
-fincc.] 1. Treatment!' 
Which John Fox having been thirteen or fourteen years 
nniler their gentle entreatance, and being too weary there- 
of, minding bin escape, weighed with nlmself by what 
means it might I* brought to pass. 
Munday (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 205). 
2. Entreaty; solicitation. 
That may by petition and faire entreatance be easily ob- 
tained of that heroicall prince. KnoUes, Hist Turks. 
These two entreatance made they might be heard, 
Nor was their just petition long denied. Fairfax. 
entreater (en-tre'ter), n. One who entreats or entre nous 
asks earnestly. tween ourse 
ter. 
table between the principal courses. 
Commaunde 30 that youre dysshe be welle fyllyd and 
hepid, and namely of entermet, and of pltance with-oute 
fat Babeet Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 330. 
2. A short dramatic entertainment, with or 
without music, originally on an allegorical or entriket, '' 
heroic subject, later of a burlesque character : 
first used in the thirteenth century : probably 
the germ of the modem opera. 3. A short 
entertainment, musical or not, inserted be- 
tween parts of a larger work ; an interlude or 
entr'acte. 
It had probably l>een customary frc-m early times to In- 
sert in the mysteries so-called entrtmeses or interludes. 
Eneyc. Brit., VII. 414. 
entremets (on-tr-ma'), " [F. : see entremes.] 
The French form now used instead of entre- 
mes, 1. 
The true chard used in pottages and entremets. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
entrench, entrenchment (en-trench', -ment). 
See intrench, intrenchment. 
'tr no"). [F., < L. inter no*, be- 
Between ourselves. 
(on'tr i 
elves.] 
It sal drawe owt the felone or the appostyme, and alle 
the I) 1 the, and hele It wlthowttene any entrete, hot new It 
evene and morne. 
MS. Lincoln .Ved., fol. 302. (llatliuxll.) 
.uvto.i, .. [ME. entriken, < OF. entriquer 
= Pr. entricar, intricar = Sp. Pg. intricar, OSp. 
entricar, < L. intricare, entangle, perplex: see 
intricate.] To entangle ; embarrass ; bring into 
difficulty; hinder. 
Which of yow that love most entriketh 
God sende hym hyr, that sorest for hytn syketh. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 403. 
entrochal (en'tro-kal), a. [< entroch(ite) + 
-o/.] Belonging to or consisting of entrochite. 
Entrochal marble, a limestone, chiefly of Carbonifer- 
ous age. Into which fragment* of encrlnites enter largely. 
entrochi, n. Plural of entrochus. 
entrochite (en'tro-kit), . [As entrochus + 
-ite 2 .] One of the wheel-like joints of encri- 
nites, which occur in great profusion in certain 
limestones, and are commonly called screw- 
stones, wheeUtones, or St. Cuthbert's beads. 
entrochus (en'tro-kus), n. ; pi. etitrochi (-ki). 
[NL., < Or. cv, in, + rpo^of, a wheel.] Same 
as entrochite. 
Yet are they no advocates of ours, but petitioners and entrepartt, V. t. See enterpar*. (1B ,., 
mfrMferttenk entrepas (on'tr-pa), n. [F., < entre, between, entrop i on entropium (en-tro'pi-on, -urn), ft. 
/ //,-,. i m, ,, Rhenish Testament (1617), p. 825. + pa ^ p ace .;| f n the man^e, a broken pace ; e ?#L < S'r Trp5r**wi a toning toward, 
entreatfu.lt (en-tret'ful), a. [In Spenser in- an amble. ^ $ in + Tp tKtn>, turn.] Inversion or turn- 
trntlfull; < entreat + -//.] Full of entreaty. entrep6t (on'tr-po), n. [F., < L. inierpontum, ing ^ oj j the fore ^,5 o f the evelid, so that 
- " , /\t * *i for n/iti />*-*> rlftnA .. & . .it A V - i-_n 
To seeke for succour of her ami her Peares, 
With humble prayers and uitreatfnll teares. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. x. 6. 
entreatingly (en-tre'ting-li), adv. In an en- 
treating manner. 
entreativet (on-tre'tiv), a. [< entreat + -ire.] 
Used in entreaty; pleading; treating. 
Oft embellish'd my entreatioe phrase 
With smelling flowers of veniant rhetoriek. 
A. Brewer (?), Lingua, i. 1. 
entreatmentt (cn-tret'ment), . [< entreat + 
-MM.] Something entreated, as a favor. This 
is the probable sense in the following passage, where dif- 
ferent InterpretatloDfl :ne ^hvn !i\ the editors: "favor 
entreated "< Iln/HttHas in dellnltion); " interview " (Clark 
and Wright, Globe ed.) ; "invitation received (Schmidt); 
neut. of interpositus, pp. of interponere, place 
between, < inter, between, + ponere, place : 
see interpose, etc. Cf. depot.] 1 . The deposit- 
ing, storage, or warehousing of foreign mer- 
chandise while awaiting payment of duties, 
or transit or reexportation without such pay- 
ment; also, a warehouse or magazine where 
such storage is made, or a port where it is per- 
mitted. [Now little used in either of these 
meanings.] 
The right of entrepot, given by this article, Is almost 
the same thing as the making all their ports free ports 
for us. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 282. 
2. A mart, as a seaport or inland town, to 
which goods are sent to be distributed over a 
the lashes come in contact with the eyeball. 
i'tro-pi), n. [< Or. evrpoiria, a turn- 
__.!: see entropion.] la physics: (a) 
by Clausius, the inventor of the word, 
and others, that part of the energy of a system 
which cannot be converted into mechanical 
work without communication of heat to some 
other body, or change of volume. (6) As used 
by Tait and others, the available energy ; that 
part of the energy which is not included under 
the entropy in sense (a). 
The entroiiy of a system is the mechanical work it can 
perform without communication of heat, or alteration of 
its total volume, all transference of heat being performed 
by reversible engines. Clerk MaxmO, Heat, p. 186. 
