Ate
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the preterit of
Eat .
n.
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The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
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As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed;
as, situ ate or situated; animate or animated. -
As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.;
as, to propiti ate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to). -
As a noun suffix, it marks the agent;
as, cur . It also sometimes marks the office or dignity;ate , delegate as, tribun .ate -
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids);
as, sulph It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.ate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc.