entertake
English
Etymology
From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.
Verb
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, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
Synonyms
- onfang