Word Meanings - ENTREATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Used in entreaty; pleading. "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

Related words: (words related to ENTREATIVE)

• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• PLEADINGLY
  In a pleading manner.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. 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;
• PLEAD
  To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• PHRASEOLOGIST
  A collector or coiner of phrases.
• PHRASELESS
  Indescribable. Shak.
• BREWERY
  A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
• PLEADING
  The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
• PHRASEOGRAM
  A symbol for a phrase.
• PLEADABLE
  Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.
• ENTREATIVE
  Used in entreaty; pleading. "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.
• PHRASEOLOGY
  1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.
• PHRASE
  A short clause or portion of a period. Note: A composition consists first of sentences, or periods; these are subdivided into sections, and these into phrases. Phrase book, a book of idiomatic phrases. J. S. Blackie. (more info) 1. A
• PHRASEOLOGIC; PHRASEOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words. "This verbal or phraseological answer." Bp. Pearson.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• IMPLEAD
  To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
• UPLEAD
  To lead upward.
• PERIPHRASE
  The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.
• METAPHRASE
  paraphrase; meta` beyond, over + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. 1. A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden. 2. An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning.
• MISPLEAD
  To err in pleading.
• PARAPHRASER
  One who paraphrases.
• METAPHRASED
  Translated literally.
• INTERPLEAD
  To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves,
• PARAPHRASE
  A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation
• REPLEADER
  A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.