cates

Compare acates, and see cater.

cates pl (plural only)

1. (archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
   • a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 155–158:

     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.

   • 1764, Charles Churchill, The Times:

     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?

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:

     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!

• Stace, caste, scate, sceat, taces

cates

1. second-person singular present indicative of catar
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of catar

cates

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of catar

• Hyphenation: ca‧tes

cates

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of catar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkates/ [ˈka.t̪es]
• Rhymes: -ates
• Syllabification: ca‧tes

cates m pl

1. plural of cate

cates

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of catar