Ate

Ate [ey-tee, ah-tee] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. 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 Examples from the Web for ates Historical Examples of ates

The Gardener: “‘Cause I ‘ates the sight of the blooming thing.”

Jokes For All Occasions

Anonymous

Which she will be some day, said cook; and I ates to think of it.

A Very Naughty Girl

L. T. Meade

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

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

“I ‘ates them as gives themselves airs in other people’s ‘ouses,” had been Sims’ verdict on the nurse.

I Walked in Arden

Jack Crawford

British Dictionary definitions for ates ate verb

1. the past tense of eat

Ate noun

1. 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 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.