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entame

verb

Etymology

From en- + tame.

  1. inherited from *tamjaną✻ — “to tame”
  2. inherited from *tammjan✻
  3. inherited from temian — “to tame”
  4. inherited from tamen
  5. inherited from *demh₂-✻ — “to tame, dominate”
  6. inherited from *tamaz✻ — “brought into the home, tame”
  7. inherited from *tam✻ — “tame”
  8. inherited from tam
  9. inherited from tame
  10. prefixed as entame — “en + tame”

Definitions

  1. To make tame.

    • 'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, Your bugle eye-balls, nor your cheeke of creame That can entame my spirits to your worship.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA