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Ate

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A·te  (t, ät, ät)
n. Greek Mythology
The goddess of criminal rashness and consequent punishment.
ate  (t)
v.
Past tense of eat.
ate [ɛt eɪt]
vb
the past tense of eat
Ate [ˈeɪtɪ ˈɑːtɪ]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a goddess who makes men blind so that they will blunder into guilty acts
[via Latin from Greek atē a rash impulse]
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Noun1.Ate - goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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ate eat


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Fouquet ate from a gold service, which artists in his own employ had modeled and cast for him alone.
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Observing that they themselves did not touch them, I was careful only to pretend to taste my portion; but my companions, being very hungry, rashly ate up all that was set before them, and very soon I had the horror of seeing them become perfectly mad.
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The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of fat.
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