Definition of "entame"

entame

verb
third-person singular simple present entames, present participle entaming, simple past and past participle entamed
1. (obsolete) To make tame, subdue, conquer, subjugate, enslave.
  Quotations
  'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire,Your bugle eye-balls, nor your cheeke of creameThat can entame my spirits to your worship.
  c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene v]