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cates

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Definition of cates

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only)Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
    “I had rather live / With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, / Than feed on cates and have him talk to me / In any summer house in Christendom.”
    “Hath any rival glutton got the start, / And beat him in his own luxurious art; / Bought cates for which Apicius could not pay, / Or drest old dainties in a newer way?”
    “I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!”
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noun

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only)Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
    “I had rather live / With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, / Than feed on cates and have him talk to me / In any summer house in Christendom.”
    “Hath any rival glutton got the start, / And beat him in his own luxurious art; / Bought cates for which Apicius could not pay, / Or drest old dainties in a newer way?”
    “I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Compare acates, and see cater.

Anagrams of cates

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2-letter words

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