† 1. Taken into service; enlisted. Obs.
1589. Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 34. Love that smiled at his newe interteined champion.
2. a. That is receiving hospitality; b. that is the object of efforts to amuse or gratify. Chiefly absol.
1856. Miss Yonge, Daisy Chain, I. xx. (1879), 206. It was perfect delight to entertainers and entertained.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakf.-t., 32. We are the entertainer and the entertained.
