12 definitions found for ate

Ate ATE, The preterite of eat, which see.
ATE, n. a'ty. [Gr. mischief; to hurt. Ate is a personification of evil, mischief or malice.]
In pagan mythology, the goddess of mischief, who was cast down from heaven by Jupiter.

Ate n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

ate - of the

-ate
1.
suffix.
1 forming nouns denoting: a status or office (doctorate; episcopate). b state or function (curate; magistrate; mandate).
2 Chem. forming nouns denoting the salt of an acid with a corresponding name ending in -ic (chlorate; nitrate).
3 forming nouns denoting a group (electorate).
4 Chem. forming nouns denoting a product (condensate; filtrate).
Etymology: from or after OF -at or é(e) or f. L -atus noun or past part.: cf. -ATE(2)
2.
suffix.
1 forming adjectives and nouns (associate; delegate; duplicate; separate).
2 forming adjectives from Latin or English nouns and adjectives (cordate; insensate; Italianate).
Etymology: from or after (F -é f.) L - atus past part. of verbs in -are
3.
suffix forming verbs (associate; duplicate; fascinate; hyphenate; separate).
Etymology: from or after (F -er f.) L - are (past part. -atus): cf. -ATE(2)

ate
past of EAT.

ate Ate is the past tense of eat.

ATE Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (Banyan, VINES)

ATE ATM Terminating Equipment (SONET, ATM)

Ate A"te, n. [Gr. ?.] (Greek. Myth.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

Ate Ate (?; 277), the preterit of Eat.

-ate -ate [From the L. suffix -atus, the past participle ending of verbs of the 1st conj.] 1. As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated. 2. As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to). 3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate. 4. In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

Eat Eat ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. Ate ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. p. Eaten ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. ``To eat grass as oxen.'' --Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. --Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. --Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. --Thackeray. 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. To eat humble pie. See under Humble. To eat of (partitive use). ``Eat of the bread that can not waste.'' --Keble. To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) To eat out, to consume completely. ``Eat out the heart and comfort of it.'' --Tillotson. To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.