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Hote v. t. & v. i. (past hatte, hot, etc.; past part. hote, hoten, hot, etc.)

To command; to enjoin. (Obs.)

To promise. (Obs.)

To be called; to be named. (Obs.) "There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hote" Quotes from Famous Books

... them and had charged M. de Freycinet to form a cabinet. We dined with mother on Christmas day, a family party, with the addition of Comte de P. and one or two stray Americans who were at hotels and were of course delighted not to dine on Christmas day at a table d'hote or cafe. W. was rather tired; the constant talking and seeing so many people of all kinds was very fatiguing, for, as long as his resignation was not official, announced in the Journal Officiel, he was still Minister ...

— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington

... venture at least within the borders of the mysterious country of Chance—anyhow, it promised something better than the stale infestivity of a table d'hote. ...

— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... Albion. Most all the swells go there. It's English, and they cook you a good beefsteak. And the boys generally drop in for table d'hote. You see, that's the worst of this place, Mr. Holcombe; there's nowhere to go evenings—no club-rooms nor theatre nor nothing; only the smoking-room of the hotel or that gambling-house; and they spring a double naught on you if there's ...

— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis

... episodes, discourses, parables, and scenes. It is all astir with the actual life of the time. We see the gossips gathered in the ale-house of Betun the brewster, and the pastry cooks in the London streets crying "Hote pies, hote! Good gees and grys. Go we dine, go we!" Had Langland not linked his literary fortunes with an uncouth and obsolescent verse, and had he possessed a finer artistic sense and a higher poetic imagination, his book might have been, like Chaucer's, among the lasting glories ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... Europeans are astonished at the rapidity with which the Americans despatch their meals; but I, having admitted the proposition, that there was "nothing new under the sun," had long previously ceased to be astonished at any thing. On the first day of my dining at the table d'hote, one of those gentlemen told me, when we sat down to dinner, that most of the persons at table were men of business, who were in the habit of eating much quicker than he knew I was accustomed to, and requested ...

— A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America • S. A. Ferrall

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