Sekirov Dictionary

regale

/ɹɪˈɡeɪl/

verb 4
noun 3
forms 5

verb4

To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.
•
To please or entertain (someone), especially with stories, tales or jokes.
- Please, regale us with your best tales!
(figurative) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
•
(no longer used) To feast (on, with something).
- she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy. — 1723

noun3

•
(rare) A feast, a meal.
- And now a maiden […] supplied them, next, / With a resplendent table, which the chaste / Directress of the stores furnish'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the last regale. — 1791
(no longer used) a choice article of food or drink.
(no longer used) refreshment.

forms

regaled · regaling · regales · regaleth · regalest

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