Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Amusing; entertaining.

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  • verb Present participle of divertise.

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Examples

  • Vauxhall, he says, and "to hear the nightingales and other birds, hear fiddles, and there a harp and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising."

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and hear fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • ” To go to Vauxhall, he says, and “to hear the nightingales and other birds, hear fiddles, and there a harp and here a Jew’s trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.

    Samuel Pepys 1909

  • But to hear the nightingale and the birds, and here fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew's-trump and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising. '

    Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

  • But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667

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