His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. To chew and swallow as food to devour - said especially of food not liquid as, to eat bread. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts. In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids) as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity as, tribunate. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent as, curate, delegate. as, to propitiate (to make propitious) to animate (to give life to). As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc. As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed as, situate or situated animate or animated.
Ate : the preterit of Eat.nnThe goddess of mischievous folly also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.nn1.