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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

Merriam Webster's

past of eat

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Greek At? Date: 1583 a Greek goddess personifying foolhardy and ruinous impulse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past of EAT.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Ate is the past tense of eat.

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