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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undining en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + dining.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That does not dine.
    • Francis French had brought his fair cousin, to be, as is our masculinely dominant custom, an undebating, undining spectator of the scene, while he himself became an active participator in both the viands and the discourse. 1839, Dennis Burrowes Kelly, The Manor of Glenmore: Or, The Irish Peasant, volume 1, page 71:
    • […] as the whole art of diplomacy is centred in the kitchen, it never can come fully into play in an undining city […] 1845, Richard Ford, John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, page 725: