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ENTERTA'IN, v.t. [L. tenco.]

1. To receive into the house and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Heb.13.

2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.

3. To keep in one's service; to maintain. He entertained ten domestics.

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

[This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.]

4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments towards our fellow men.

5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital.

6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God's law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles.

7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company.

ENTERTA'IN, n. Entertainment. [Not in use.]



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ENTERTA'IN, v.t. [L. tenco.]

1. To receive into the house and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Heb.13.

2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.

3. To keep in one's service; to maintain. He entertained ten domestics.

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

[This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.]

4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments towards our fellow men.

5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital.

6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God's law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles.

7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company.

ENTERTA'IN, n. Entertainment. [Not in use.]


EN-TER-TAIN', n.

Entertainment. [Not in use.] Spenser.


EN-TER-TAIN', v.t. [Fr. entretenir; entre, in or between, and tenir, to hold, L. teneo.]

  1. To receive into the house, and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Heb. xiii.
  2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.
  3. To keep in one's service; to maintain; as, he entertained ten domestics. You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. Shak. [This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.]
  4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments toward our fellow men.
  5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital. [Obs.]
  6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God's law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles.
  7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company.

En`ter*tain"
  1. To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

    You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. Shak.

  2. To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
  3. Entertainment.

    [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.

    Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares. Heb. xiii. 2.

  5. To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.

    The weary time she can not entertain. Shak.

  6. To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.

    I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke. De Quincey.

    A rumor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

  7. To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  8. To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
  9. To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

    [Obs.]

    To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus. Jer. Taylor.

    Syn. -- To amuse; divert; maintain. See Amuse.

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Entertain

ENTERTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin tenco.]

1. To receive into the house and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2.

2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.

3. To keep in one's service; to maintain. He entertained ten domestics.

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

[This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.]

4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments towards our fellow men.

5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital.

6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God's law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles.

7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company.

ENTERTA'IN, noun Entertainment. [Not in use.]

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