Definition of "enterprize" [enterprize]

• Archaic spelling of enterprise. (noun)

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• "Bedford you shall not call our enterprize unfortunate need I again repeat that to me appears in a light very very different?"
• "Then came the pretenders, men who from vanity, or the impulse of growing wealth, or from that enterprize which is natural to talents,"
• "Then came the pretenders, men who from vanity, or the impulse of growing wealth, or from that enterprize which is natural to talents, sought to detach themselves from the plebeian ranks, to which they properly belonged, and imitated, at some distance, the manners and habits of the great."