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Enjoy

En·joy', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ENJOYED; p. pr. & vb. n. ENJOYING.] [O. Fr. enjoier, to receive with joy, from prefix en and joie, equivalent to Eng. joy, q. v.]

  1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation, and the like.
  2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.

That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxvii. 8. 3. To have sexual intercourse with. Shak. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure or satisfaction in one's own mind, or from the pleasures of which one partakes; to be happy.

En-joy', v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [Rare.] Milton.