Ate

[ ey-tee, ah-tee ]

/ ˈeɪ ti, ˈɑ ti /

noun

an ancient Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it.

Origin of Ate

< Greek, special use of átē reckless impulse, ruin, akin to aáein to mislead, harm

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Examples from the Web for ates

We don't work for it; it's the bread of shame and idleness: and yet it's Owen M'Carthy that ates it!
Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories|William Carleton
The pig, the crathur, won't get fat; he ates everything he can reach, and still he looks like a basket wid a skin over it.
Fairies and Folk of Ireland|William Henry Frost
Can't you wait till he ates a thrifle o' some-thin' stout, to keep life in him, afther his hard journey?
The Poor Scholar|William Carleton
Is she alive, is she dead, does she iver dhream iv him as she ates her hay an' rubs her back agin th' bars iv her gilded cage?
Mr. Dooley Says|Finley Dunne

Which she will be some day, said cook; and I ates to think of it.
A Very Naughty Girl|L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for ates

ate

/ (ɛt, eɪt) /

verb

the past tense of eat

Ate

/ (ˈeɪtɪ, ˈɑːtɪ) /

noun

Greek myth a goddess who makes men blind so that they will blunder into guilty acts

Word Origin for Ate

C16: via Latin from Greek atē a rash impulse

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Word Origin and History for ates

ate

past tense of eat (q.v.).

Ate

Greek goddess of infatuation and evil, from ate "infatuation, bane, ruin, mischief," of uncertain origin.

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