/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Scheme
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is something entertained. Scheme is a Greek word meaning what is had or held (scheʹo); and entertain is the Latin tenco, to have or hold, also.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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