Verb

(en verb)

To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something

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To have the use or benefit of something.

* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8

that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers

* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays

This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.

To have sexual intercourse with.

(Milton)

Verb

(preferr)

*, II.3.2:

*:Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers.

(lb) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.

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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."

(lb) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").

*1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.36:

*:one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King James.

*1817 , (Walter Scott), , XVII:

*:Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current, and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept.