entertake

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verb

To entertain; to receive.

OriginFrench entreprendre →
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Meanings

verbentertake (third-person singular simple present entertakes, present participle entertaking, simple past entertook, past participle entertaken)

present singular third person entertakes · participle present entertaking · past entertook · participle past entertaken

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo entertain; to receive.

    And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchentreprendre
  2. Englishentertake

From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.

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Chicago

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