reëat

present singular third person reëats · participle present reëating · past reate · participle past reëaten

1. rareRare spelling of reeat.

   Thus they may happen to be reëaten by man even before assimilation.

   1878, The Popular Science Monthly: Supplement, page 174

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   I opened the stomach of a seal of aldermanic proportions, who looked as if he had lately been attending a civic feast , and found in it, not turtle, but about a bushel of beautiful prawns, evidently just swallowed, and so fresh that we might have reëaten them ourselves, but for an unworthy prejudice.

   1861, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 237

   ... and as bread eaten to-day may not be reëaten to-morrow , so a reality which set vital forces building the non-physical body this week can not set those forces at work next week.

   1893, Mary Alling Aber, Souls, page 64