ate

[Ate]

Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

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the preterit of Eat.

Noun
goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment



the preterit of Eat.

n.
The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

imp.
of Eat


Ate

Ate (?; 277), the preterit of Eat.

Ate

A"te , n. [Gr. .] (Greek. Myth.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

the preterit of Eat.

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

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Usage Examples

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

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Other Usage Examples

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

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