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名詞

intertainment (複数形 intertainments)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of entertainment
   • 1587, Richard Hakluyt (translator), A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes unto Florida by René Goulaine de Laudonnière, London, “The description of the West Indies in generall, but chiefly and particularly of Florida,”^[1]

     Wherevpon the king began very louingly to intreate both our Captaine and vs. And after these gentle intertainments, we went our selues into the woods, hoping there to discouer some singularities […]

   • 1610, John Healey (translator), St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London, Book 22, Chapter 8, p. 883,^[2]

     […] he was the man that gaue intertainment vnto mee & my brother Alipius, not being Clergy-men as yet, but onley lay christians, and wee dwelt as then in his house […]

   • 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotation upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, paraphrase of Luke 14:12, p. 238,^[3]

     Let not thy intertainments be of those which can, or are likely to entertain thee again, or to whom thou hast obligations of asfinity, &c. for this is but a worthlesse way of hospitality, in which there is nothing commendable or thank-worthy.