extreat

English

Etymology

Variant form of estreat.

Noun

extreat (countable and uncountable, plural extreats)

1. (obsolete) Estreat.
2. (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)

1. Obsolete form of estreat.

Anagrams

• -trexate