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dine
/ˈdaɪn/
(vi.)用正餐,進餐(vt.)宴請
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dine
v. i.
[
imp. &
p
. p.
Dined
p.
pr
. &
vb
. n.
Dining
.]
To
eat
the
principal
regular
meal
of
the
day
;
to
take
dinner
.
Now
can
I
break
my
fast
,
dine
,
sup
,
and
sleep
.
--
Shak
.
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
.
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dine
,
v. 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
.”
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
dine
v
1:
have
supper
;
eat
dinner
; "
We
often
dine
with
friends
in
this
restaurant
"
2:
give
dinner
to
;
host
for
dinner
; "
I'm
wining
and
dining
my
friends
"
From:
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Dine
(
Gen
. 43:16).
It
was
the
custom
in
Egypt
to
dine
at
noon
.
But
it
is
probable
that
the
Egyptians
took
their
principal
meal
in
the
evening
,
as
was
the
general
custom
in
the
East
(
Luke
14:12).
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