extreat
English
Etymology
Variant form of estreat.
Noun
extreat (countable and uncountable, plural extreats)
- (obsolete) Estreat.
- (obsolete) Extraction.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Whether this heavenly thing whereof I treat, / To weeten Mercie, be of Justice part, / Or drawne forth from her by divine extreate […]
Verb
extreat (third-person singular simple present extreats, present participle extreating, simple past and past participle extreated)
- Obsolete form of estreat.