Obs. [f. prec. adj.]
1. trans. To make a whole of; to unite.
1678. Sir J. Spelman, Alfred Gt. (1709), 28. The West Saxon Kingdom and the Kingdom of Kent became again entired in one in his hand.
2. To attach exclusively; also in weaker sense, to attach closely or intimately.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., VI. 305. Lamia was a Courtizan of Athens, and entyred to Demetrius. Ibid., VII. 323. Shee had a bedfellow, vnto whom aboue all others shee was entired. Ibid. (1655), Fortune by Land & S., V. Wks. 1874, VI. 432. I take my Sisters husband, unto me Therefore one most intir’d.
Hence Entired ppl. a. = ENTIRE 3 c.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., I. 37. Theseus, in search of his deare and entired friend Perithous.
