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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Enjoy \En*joy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enjoyed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Enjoying}.] [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L.
in) + OF & F. joie joy: cf OF enjoir to enjoy. See {Joy}.]
1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or
experience of to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be
delighted with as to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to
enjoy conversation.
2. To have possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or
have the benefit of 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. xxxvi
8.
To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. --Heb.
xi 25.
3. To have sexual intercourse with --Milton.
{To enjoy one's self}, to feel pleasure; to be happy.
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