“feedeth” is a form of
feed
/fiːd/ verb, noun
Also a form of fee
- verb (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. “Feed the dog every evening.”
- verb (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals). “Spiders feed on gnats and flies.”
- verb (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. “Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.”
- verb (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed. “Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.”
- verb (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed. “We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.”
- verb (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- verb (transitive) To supply with something. “Springs feed ponds with water.”
- verb (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. “If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.”
- noun (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals. “They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.”
- noun Something supplied continuously. “a satellite feed”
- noun The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. “the paper feed of a printer”
- noun (writing) The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.
- noun The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- noun (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities. “They held a crab feed on the beach.”
- noun (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published. “I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.”
Synonyms
nourish feast provender give feed in eat run flow course prey fertilize fertilise
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.
From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20.
- verb To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
- verb To take food; to eat. Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed. De Foe.
- verb To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; --with on or upon.
Etymology [AS. f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, Icel. fæ, Sw. föda, Dan. föde. Food.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “feed”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details