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)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To divert; to entertain.
   • 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, 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

   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:

     company to divertise my cousin in his loneliness (iii)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• revisited

Galician

Verb

divertise

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of divertir