To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
Something or someone one is interested in.
Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.