Word Meanings - DIVERTISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divert; to entertain. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to DIVERTISE)

• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• DIVERTISSEMENT
  A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.
• DIVERTIMENTO
  ) A light and pleasing composition.
• ENTERTAINING
  Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ly, adv. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ness, n.
• DIVERTISE
  To divert; to entertain. Dryden.
• DIVERTICLE
  A diverticulum. (more info) 1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. Hales.
• DIVERTIVE
  Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.
• DIVERTIBLE
  Capable of being diverted.
• ENTERTAINMENT
  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
• DIVERTISEMENT
  Diversion; amusement; recreation.
• DIVERTICULUM
  A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
• DIVERTER
  One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
• ENTERTAIN
  1. To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep. You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. Shak. 2. To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into
• DIVERTICULAR
  Pertaining to a diverticulum.
• DIVERT
  turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.