entertaining

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENTERTA'INING, participle present tense Receiving with hospitality; receiving and treating with provisions and accommodations, for reward; keeping or cherishing with favor; engaging the attention; amusing. 1. Pleasing; amusing; diverting; as an entertaining discourse; an entertaining friend.
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