Verb

(es)

To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To make an impression, to be impressive.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, title=Moldova 0-5 England

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.}}

To produce a vivid impression of (something).

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

* Shakespeare

his heart, like an agate, with your print impressed

To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

* I. Watts

Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them.

To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

* Evelyn

the second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners

Verb

(en verb)

To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.

to entertain friends with lively conversation

The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.

(transitive, and, intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.

They enjoy entertaining a lot.

* Bible, Heb. xiii. 2

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers

To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.

The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.

to entertain a proposal

* De Quincey

I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.

* Hawthorne

A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.

(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.

* Shakespeare

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

* Jeremy Taylor

to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus