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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dine.

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Examples

  • Senator John McCain dined on perch here Sunday with Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor and homeland security secretary, and is campaigning in Pennsylvania with him for a couple of days.

    Looking for V.P. Clues in Pennsylvania - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Senator John McCain dined on perch here Sunday with Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor and homeland security secretary, and is campaigning in Pennsylvania with him for a couple of days.

    Looking for V.P. Clues in Pennsylvania - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • /[Page 55] /But to go back to Morpeth: we again dined at the 'Phoenix'; then Forster put me into my carriage, and my luggage into the van, and I was shot off towards Scotland, while himself took train for Ireland.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • The privateer Florida coaled at Barbados on the 23rd ult., and her captain dined with the Governor.

    Foreign Intelligence 1863

  • Smith and Jennett sat out for home at 1/2 after two Oclock Mrs. Perry called dined with us sent a note by her to M. J.

    Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

  • He "dined" on the edible plastic sheets, then left the safety deposit vault.

    Man of Many Minds 1925

  • I didn't exac'ly know what 'dined' meant, but -- he, he, he, he!

    The Christmas Story from David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott 1872

  • I suspect they were 'dined' at a fancy restaurant and shown these brochures and, like many others, bought the property sight unseen.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

  • Painter Eugène Delacroix caught the French feel of the term in an 1849 diary entry describing décor in a house where he had dined: The luxe is arresting: rooms wrapped in magnificent silk, including the ceiling.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Painter Eugène Delacroix caught the French feel of the term in an 1849 diary entry describing décor in a house where he had dined: The luxe is arresting: rooms wrapped in magnificent silk, including the ceiling.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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