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e house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

ubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith. Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. Burke.…

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. [Obs.] They him besought Of harbor and or ease as for hire penny. Chaucer.

An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.

Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

To treat with hospitality; to entertain. [Obs.] Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise. Spenser.

To entertain. [Obs.]

To invite; to entertain. [Obs.] "Pleasures to entreat." Spenser.

Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [R.]

That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. Luke xvi. 19.

A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1.

One who entertains magnificently. Johnson.

To make very happy; to delight. What a glorius entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit. I. Watts.

To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd.

A festival. Fête champêtre ( Etym: [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.

One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy. A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. x. 36

Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.