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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

[Cf.

, and see

Noun.

]

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

Shak.

Cates

for which Apicius could not pay.

Shurchill.

Choicest

cates

and the fiagon’s best spilth.

R. Browning.

Noun.

Delicious food or viands; dainties.

See also: cates

catés

(Latin America) Informal second-person singular (vos) present subjunctive form of catar.