divertise
English
Etymology
From French divertir, present participle divertissant.
Verb
divertise (third-person singular simple present divertises, present participle divertising, simple past and past participle divertised)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To divert; to entertain.
- 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, John Dryden, transl., De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
- let them instruct, let them divertise, and let them move us
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for divertise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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