Dine /(?)/
Dine
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining
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To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.
Phrases & Compounds
- To dine with Duke Humphrey
- to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
Dine
v. t.
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To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.
- To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.]