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Word Meanings - ENTERTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into

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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 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. To meet or encounter, as an enemy. Shak. 6. To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments. 7. To lead on; to bring along; to introduce. 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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  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • MAINTAIN
    by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • ACCEPTABLE
    Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • DELIGHTING
    Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
  • POSSESSIVE
    Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • STIFLED
    Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
  • EJECTOR
    A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • COMFORTLESS
    Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
  • ACCEPT
    To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
  • ENACTMENT
    1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • ALTERNATION
    Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
  • ENACTURE
    Enactment; resolution. Shak.
  • DEJECTION
    1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • SUBALTERNANT
    A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
  • DEJECTORY
    1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
  • FALTER
    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • MISALTER
    To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

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