Ate
[et]
Definition
(-) the preterit of Eat.
(n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
(imp.) of Eat
Editor: Pratt
Definition
n. (myth.) the goddess of mischief and of all rash actions and their results.
pa.t. of Eat.
Edited by Emily
Examples
- In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Both ate and drank, but Riderhood much the more abundantly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Of those we ate many. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Being hungry, I ate and was grateful. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Robert Jordan drank another cup of wine while he ate. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They ate pleasant fruit and looked into each other's eyes and smiled. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We ate in pavilions on the sand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was such a wonderful thing, at first, to have her coming softly down to talk to me as I ate my supper. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- However, the company of her friend consoled Mrs. Crawley, and she ate a very good dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But I'm always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He never ate a mouthful of food on the journey except the grass he could pick within the length of his picket rope. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When Mr. and Miss Murdstone were at home, I took my meals with them; in their absence, I ate and drank by myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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