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ENTERTA'IN, 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. Hebrews 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This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.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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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Entertain'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/entertain.html.
Entry for 'Entertain'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/entertain.html.
