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ententet, n. and v. See intent. entente cordiale (on-tont' kôr-di-al'). [F., cordial understanding: entente, understanding, intent; cordiale, fem. of cordial, cordial: see in tent, n., and cordial.] Cordial understanding; specifically, in politics, the friendly relations existing between one government and another. There was not only no originality, but no desire for it perhaps even a dread of it, as something that would break the entente cordiale of placid mutual a urance. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 339. ententift, ententiflyt. See intentive, intentively. enter1 (en'ter), v. [ compar. interior, inner: see interior ), That darkesome cave they enter , where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 35. For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible To enter human hearing. Shak., Tempest, i. 2. The garrison, in a panic, evacuated the fort, and the English entered it without a blow. Macaulay , Lord Clive. 2. To penetrate into; pa through the outer portion or surface of; pierce: as, the post en tered the soil to the depth of a foot. IMG:content-0534.jpg:[ocr errors] as a ve el on arrival in port, by delivering a manifest: as, to enter a ship or her cargo.-11. In law: ( a ) To go in or upon and take po e ion of, as lands. See entry. (b) To place in regular form before a court; place upon the records of a court: as, to enter a writ, an order, or an appearance. Master Fang, have you enter'd the action? Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 12. To set on game; specifically, of young dogs, to set on game for the first time. No sooner had the northern carles begun their hunts up but the Presbyterians flock'd to London from all quar- ' ters, and were like hounds ready to be entred. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, ii. 143. Before being entered , the dogs must be taught to lead quietly. Dogs of Great Britain and America , p. 219. To enter a bill short, in banking , to note down in a customer's account the receipt, due-date, and amount of a bill not yet due, but which has been paid into the bank by the customer, the amount being carried to his credit only when the bill has been honored. To enter lands, office, der to secure prior right of purchase to file an application for public land in proper II. in trans. 1. To make an entrance, entry, or ingre ; pa to the interior; go or come from without inward: used absolutely or with in, into, on, or upon. See phrases below. Full grete was the bataile and the stour mortall, where as these wardes of Benoyk were entred , and medled with their enmyes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 402. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. John x. 2. Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. Specifically-2. To appear upon the stage; come into view: said of personages in a drama, or of actors: as, enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter. Back fly the scenes, and enter foot and horse. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. i. 315. 31. To begin; make beginning. The year entering. Evelyn . enter O pity and shame, that they, who to live well Enter'd so fair, should turn aside! Milton , P. L., xi. 630. To enter into. (a) To get into the inside or interior of, or within the external inclosure or covering of; penetrate. Although we know the Christian faith and allow of it, yet in this respect we are but entering; entered we are not into the visible Church before our admittance by the door of Baptism. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 1. (6) To engage in: as, to enter into busine . The original project of discovery had been entered into with indefinite expectations of gain. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 9. (e) To be or become initiated in; comprehend. As soon as they once entered into a taste of pleasure, politene , and magnificence, they fell into a violences, conspiracies, and divisions. Add is on, Travels in Italy. IMG:content-0535.png:[blocks in formation] Into the merits of these we have hardly entered at all. Brougham. (e) To be an ingredient in; form a constituent part in: as, lead enters into the composition of pewter. Among the Italians there are not only sentences, but a multitude of particular words, that never enter into common discourse. Add is on , Remarks on Italy (Bohn), I. 393. To enter into recognizances, in law, to become bound under a penalty, by a written obligation before a court of record, to do a specified act, as to appear in court, keep the peace, pay a debt, or the like. To enter on or upon. (a) To begin; make a beginning of; set out on: as, to enter upon the duties of an office. To take the childe for a chaunse & his choise moder, And euyn into Egypt on his way. IMG:content-0536.png:[blocks in formation] Thow sholdest haue knowen that Clergye can and con- ceiued more thorugh Resoun; For Resoun wolde haue reherced the rizte as Clergye saide, Ac for thine entermetyng here artow forsake. tumor.] In surg., hernia of the umbilicus, with protrusion of the omentum and intestines. enterer (en'tér-ér), n. One who enters. If any require any other little booke meet to enter children; the Schoole of Vertue is one of the principall and easiest for the first enterers, being full of precepts of ciuilitie, and such as children will soone learne and take a delight in. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. cxiii. enterflowt, n. [