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1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the

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1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat. 2. That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement. Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement. Prescott. 3. Admission into service; service. Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment. Shak. 4. Payment of soldiers or servants; wages. The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. Sir J. Davies. Syn. -- Amusement; diversion; recreation; pastime; sport; feast; banquet; repast; carousal.

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  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • GAYETY
    1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth;
  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • FROLICKY
    Frolicsome. Richardson.
  • LEARN
    linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
  • CHEERINESS
    The state of being cheery.
  • BANQUETTE
    A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
  • FEAST
    festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
  • PASTIME
    That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
  • DROOPINGLY
    In a drooping manner.
  • ADMITTANCE
    The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
  • ACCEPTATION
    1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. 2. The meaning
  • ACQUISITION
    1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
  • CHEERISNESS
    Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
  • CHEERINGLY
    In a manner to cheer or encourage.
  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • CHEERER
    One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
  • SPORTING
    Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • SPORTIVE
    Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
  • UPCHEER
    To cheer up. Spenser.
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • HALF-LEARNED
    Imperfectly learned.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • UNWEARY
    To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • MISACCEPTATION
    Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
  • ENTREATY
    1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;

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