dine with Duke Humphrey

Verb

dine with Duke Humphrey (third-person singular simple present dines with Duke Humphrey, present participle dining with Duke Humphrey, simple past and past participle dined with Duke Humphrey)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To go without dinner.
   • When I want prouant wᵗʰ: Humfrie
     I sup, & when benighted,
     I repose in Powles wᵗʰ: waking soules,
     Yet neuer am affrighted.
     When I lack food, I go
     without it, and when benighted,
     I repose in St. Paul’s (graveyard) with ghosts,
     Yet am never scared.c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
   • It has been said that there is no instance, in modern times, of a Chuzzlewit having been found on terms of intimacy with the Great. But here again the sneering detractors who weave such miserable figments from their malicious brains, are stricken dumb by evidence. For letters are yet in the...1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   box Harry