different between plead vs emplead

English

Etymology

From Middle English pleden, plaiden, from Old French plaider (“to plead, offer a plea”), from plait, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc.", in Classical Latin, "an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of place? (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleitear (“to litigate, take to court”).

Pronunciation

Present tense, infinitive

• IPA^(key): /?pli?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Past tense

• IPA^(key): /?pli?d?d/
• IPA^(key): /pl?d/ (both pled and plead)

Verb

plead (third-person singular simple present pleads, present participle pleading, simple past and past participle (North America, England, legal) pleaded or (North America, Scotland) pled or (North America) plead)

1. (transitive, intransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.

   • O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

2. (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore.

3. (transitive) To offer by way of excuse.

   Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.

4. (transitive) To discuss by arguments.

Related terms

• plea
• pleasant
• please
• pleasurable
• pleasure

Translations

Further reading

• plead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plead in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• plead at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• padel, padle, paled, pedal

English

Etymology

en- +? plead: compare Old French emplaidier (en- + plaidier).

Verb

emplead (third-person singular simple present empleads, present participle empleading, simple past and past participle empleaded)

1. (archaic, transitive) To accuse; to indict.

Related terms

• implead
• plead

Anagrams

• empaled

Spanish

Verb

emplead

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of emplear.