eat

EAT, verb transitive preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.] 1. To bite or chew and swallow, as food. Men eat flesh and vegetables. They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. Daniel 4:25. 2. To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing. We say a cancer eats the flesh. 3. To consume; to waste. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them. Ecclesiastes 5:11. 4. To enjoy. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:19. 5. To consume; to oppress. Who eat up my people as they eat bread. Psalms 14:4. 6. To feast. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22:13. In scripture, to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe on him and be nourished by faith. To eat one's words, is to swallow back; to take back what has been uttered; to retract. EAT, verb intransitive To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners. Matthew 9:11. 1. To take food; to be maintained in food. To eat or to eat in or into, is to make way by corrosion; to gnaw, to enter by gradually wearing or separating the parts of a substance. A cancer eats into the flesh. Their word will eat as doth a canker. 2 Timothy 2:17. To eat out, to consume. Their word will eat out the vitals of religion, corrupt and destroy it.