Meanings
nounenterprize (countable and uncountable, plural enterprizes)
plural enterprizes
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of enterprise.
If God would not this great deſigne ſhould be, / Perfect and round without ſome knavery, / Not that our Prince ſhould end this enterprize, / But for ſo many tales, ſo many lies.
a. 1636, R[ichard] Corbet, “To the Duke of Buckingham”, in Certain Elegant Poems, London: […] R[ichard] Cotes for Andrew Crooke […], published 1647, →OCLC, page 42
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