Dined

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr.
     an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to
     fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and
     cf. {Dinner}, {D?jeuner}.]
     To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.


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           Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
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     {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.
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