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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr & vb n. {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, 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?jeuner}.] 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) [web1913]: Dine \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.'' --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dine v 1: have supper; eat dinner [syn: {sup}] 2: give dinner to host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends" [syn: {sup}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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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