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Supping   Listen
verb
Sup  v. t.  (past & past part. supped; pres. part. supping)  To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip. "There I'll sup Balm and nectar in my cup."



Sup  v. t.  To treat with supper. (Obs.) "Sup them well and look unto them all."



Sup  v. i.  To eat the evening meal; to take supper. "I do entreat that we may sup together."



noun
Supping  n.  
1.
The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
2.
That which is supped; broth. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Supping" Quotes from Famous Books



... third person following them. No third person, however, appeared. Gustav himself conducted them to a small table laid for two, covered with pink roses, and handed his fair client the menu of a specially ordered supper. There was no gainsaying the fact that Letty and her escort proposed supping alone! ...
— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... criticism. "How can you expect," our author asks, "a frank and unbiassed criticism upon the performance of George Frederick Cooke Snooks . . . when the editor or reporter who is to write it has just been supping on beefsteak and stewed potatoes at Windust's, and regaling himself on brandy-and-water cold, without, at the expense of the aforesaid George Frederick Cooke Snooks?" The severest censor of the press, however, would hardly declare now that "as to such ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... which he well knew would not be complimentary. For a full hour they were closeted together. Mary, in the kitchen, could faintly hear their voices, and rejoiced to gather from the sound that, to use her own expression, "the master was supping his broth right well peppered." At last Mistress Tabitha marched forth, casting a Parthian dart ...
— All's Well - Alice's Victory • Emily Sarah Holt

... exclaimed Hardenberg, laughing. "How could you give way to such senseless apprehensions while I was supping in a friendly way at the house ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach

... of lavish expenditure for which the dear Vidame was famous fifty years ago. We revel on a second floor in the Rue Montorgueil. There are no more wars with the Cardinal, no Field of the Cloth of Gold. You, Comte d'Esgrignon, in short, are supping in the company of one Blondet, younger son of a miserable provincial magistrate, with whom you would not shake hands down yonder; and in ten years' time you may sit beside him among peers of the realm. Believe in yourself after that, ...
— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac


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