† entainv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To overtake, affect = attain v. 5.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of hostile agency)
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saila1300
seeka1300
visitc1340
beclipc1380
entainc1380
seizec1381
offendc1385
affectc1425
rehetea1450
take1483
attaintc1534
prevent1535
attach1541
attempt1546
affront1579
buffeta1593
to get at ——1650
assault1667
insult1697
to lay at1899
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2590 Sche is so mat sche may noȝt go so hunger hur haueþ enteynte.
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v.c1380- he couldn't run a menage
- he didn't do anything else
- he etc can give cards and spades
- he etc could not see it
- he etc didn't do anything else
- he etc will go far
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it bit him
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it bit him etc
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it bit him her
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it etc him
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it etc him etc
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it etc him her
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him etc
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him her
- he etc wouldn't say boo to a goose
- he has seen his last gum tree
- he is lifeless that is faultless
- he laughs best who laughs last
- he laughs longest who laughs last
- he loves me, he loves me not
- he may bear a bull that hath borne a calf
- he may ill run that cannot go
- he minds him
- he must have killed a chinaman