divertise

verb

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete)to entertain, to cheer up.

   “let them instruct, let them divertise, and let them move us”

   “Matré Clark, to divertise you, I vill tell you, how I did get be acquainted vid dis Bedlam Matré.”

   “company to divertise my cousin in his loneliness (iii)”