Regale vs Amuse - What's the difference?
regale | amuse |
To please or entertain (someone).
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.
(obsolete) To feast ((on), (with) something).
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , V:
*:she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.
(figurative) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
* Gilpin
To cause laughter, to be funny.
(archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
* Johnson
(archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
* Holland
* Fuller
In transitive terms the difference between regale and amuse
is that regale is to provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink while amuse is to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.As a noun regale
is a feast, meal.regale
English
Etymology
From (etyl) . Influenced in Old French by se rigoler "amuse oneself, rejoice," of unknown origin.Verb
(en-verb)- You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
- to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear
amuse
English
Verb
- I watch these movies because they amuse me.
- It always amuses me to hear the funny stories why people haven't got a ticket, but I never let them get in without paying.
- A group of children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake.
- He amused his followers with idle promises.
- Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold.
- Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house.