entertake
English edit
Etymology edit
From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.
Verb edit
entertake (third-person singular simple present entertakes, present participle entertaking, simple past entertook, past participle entertaken)
- (transitive, obsolete) To entertain; to receive.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.