divertise

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verb

to entertain, to cheer up.

OriginFrench divertir →
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Meanings

verbdivertise (third-person singular simple present divertises, present participle divertising, simple past and past participle divertised)

present singular third person divertises · participle present divertising · participle past divertised · past divertised

  1. ambitransitiveobsoleteto entertain, to cheer up.

    company to divertise my cousin in his loneliness (iii)

    1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
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    let them instruct, let them divertise, and let them move us

    1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC

    Matré Clark, to divertise you, I vill tell you, how I did get be acquainted vid dis Bedlam Matré.

    1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana

Origin

  1. Frenchdivertir
  2. Englishdivertise

From French divertir, present participle divertissant.

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