Definition of "entertaine" [entertaine]

• Obsolete spelling of entertain. (verb)

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• "When my Cat and I entertaine each other with mutuall apish tricks (as playing with a garter,) who knows but that"
• "But if your Love have any harshe or unsavourie taste, which mine is no way able to endure, neyther dare entertaine in anie kinde whatsoever: you must and shall hold mee excused, because I am made of no such temper."
• "Arras, Clothes and Golde worke, Velvets, Silkes, and all other rich adornments, in such manner as her husband had commanded, and answerable to her owne worthy mind, being no way to learne, in what manner to entertaine strangers."