entertainment (2 cf. note on ENTERTAIN)
1.
maintaining a person in one's service, employ All'sW. III. vi. 12,
IV. i. 17
“i' the adversary's
,”
Cor. IV. iii. 49, Oth. III. iii. 250,
Ant. IV. vi. 17
“, but No
honourable trust.”
2.
way of spending
(time) LLL. V. i. 129.
3.
reception (of
persons), manner of reception, (hence) treatment
Tp. I. ii. 462
“I will resist such
,”
Meas. III. ii. 231
“the of death,”
Shr. II. i. 54, III. i. 2,
Cor. IV. v. 10
“I have deserv'd no
better ,”
Ham. II. ii. 337, Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 140, Cym. I. iv. 172; “John Drum's ,” ‘which
is, to hale a man in by the heade, and thrust him
out by both the shoulders’ (Holinshed) All'sW. III. vi. 40.
4.
accommodation for
guests, esp. provision for the table AYL. II. iv. 73,
IV. iii. 145
“fresh array and
entertainment,”
Wint. I. i. 9, Lr. II. iv. 209.
5.
meal, repast Tim. I. ii. 154.
