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Webster 1913 Edition

Dine

Dine

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dined
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dining
.]
[F.
dîner
, OF.
disner
, LL.
disnare
, contr. fr. an assumed
disjunare
;
dis-
+ an assumed
junare
(OF.
juner
) to fast, for L.
jejunare
, fr.
jejunus
fasting. See
Jejune
, and cf.
Dinner
,
D[GREEK]jeuner
.]
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast,
dine
, sup, and sleep.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
T.
1.
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.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
To dine upon; to have to eat.
[Obs.]
“What will ye dine.”
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dine

DINE

,
Verb.
I.
[L., to cease. Gr., to feast.] To eat the chief meal of the day. This meal seems originally to have been taken about the middle of the day, at least in northern climates, as it still is by laboring people. Among people in the higher walks of life, and in commercial towns, the time of dining is from tow to five or six oclock in the afternoon.

DINE

,
Verb.
T.
To give a dinner to; to furnish with the principal meal; to feed; as, the landlord dined a hundred men.

Definition 2025

dîne

dîne

See also: dine, diné, dîné, and Diné

French

Verb

dîne

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dîner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of dîner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dîner
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dîner
  5. second-person singular imperative of dîner

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