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verbentame (third-person singular simple present entames, present participle entaming, simple past and past participle entamed)
present singular third person entames · participle present entaming · participle past entamed · past entamed
- obsoletetransitiveTo make tame.
'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, Your bugle eye-balls, nor your cheeke of creame That can entame my spirits to your worship.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]
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