Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Importune \Im`por*tune"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Importuned}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Importuning}.] [From {Importune}, a.: cf. F.
   importuner.]
   1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with
      frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or
      pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.

            Their ministers and residents here have perpetually
            importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
                                                  --Swift.

   2. To import; to signify. [Obs.] ``It importunes death.''
      --Spenser.