plea
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plea
- /pliː/
Rhymes with -iː
Where it comes from
From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit. See also please, pleasure.
noun pleas
- An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
- An excuse; an apology. Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
- That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
- That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
- An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
- The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
- A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
Similar: plaidoyer
verb pleas · pleaing · pleaed
- To plead; to argue. With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
