Dine
Dine , intransitive verb
[French dîner, Old French disner, Late Latin disnare, contr. from an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (Old French juner) to fast, for Latin jejunare, from jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and compare Dinner, Déjeuner.]
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.
Collocations (1)
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.
Dine , transitive verb
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.
2.
To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obsolete]
What will ye dine.