din'd

English

Verb

din'd

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of dine
   • 1662, Adam Olearius, translated by John Davies, The Voyages & Travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo (a Gentleman Belonging to the Embassy, Sent by the Duke of Holstein to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia) into the East-Indies. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Dring, and J[ohn] Starkey, […], page 227:

     If he meet him in the ſtreet at ſome diſtance from his own houſe, the firſt queſtion he makes, is, whether he hath din’d or ſupp’d, if not, he will carry him to the next Tavern, and treat him magnificently with fiſh and fleſh, if he hath din’d, he will give him onely a Collation of Fruits and Conſerves.

   • 1743, Thomas Lediard, The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Roman Empire; Illustrated with Maps, Plans of Battles, Sieges, and Medals, and a Great Number of Original Letters and Papers Never Before Published, 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] J. Wilcox, […], page 340:

     The ſame Evening, his Grace ſupped with the King, the Prince Royal, and the Markgraves, and din’d with them, the next Day, at the great Chamberlain’s.

   • [1803], Oddicurious [pseudonym], The Oddest of All Oddities: Being an Odd Book of All the Odd Sermons That Have Been Preached in the Fields, and Such Odd Chapels, in Every Odd Year, Odd Month, or Odd Day, since the Odd Year Seventy One: […], London: […] S. Bailey, […], page 24:

     JUST after you’ve din’d, take a diſh that is large, / And into it what you have eaten diſcharge; […]