MDDM23: Pates

[Dave Monroe]

"I reach in my Pockets and find and unscroll my
Commission, which, all but knocking Pates, they read
hastily." (M&D, Ch. 36, p. 363)

"Here were great Houses getting into violent feuds
over my patés ..." (M&D, Ch. 37, p. 371)

"Long were the nights, as a-riot with Hepatomachy and
Pursuit, as the days a-tangle with Rumor and
Faithlessness,--" (M&D, Ch. 37, p. 378)

Main Entry: pate 
Pronunciation: 'pAt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English
Date: 14th century
1 : HEAD
2 : the crown of the head
3 chiefly disparaging : BRAIN
- pat·ed  /'pA-t&d/ adjective

Main Entry: pâte 
Pronunciation: 'pät
Function: noun
Etymology: French, literally, paste, from Old French
paste
Date: 1863
: PASTE

Main Entry: pâ·té 
Variant(s): also pate  /pä-'tA, pa-/
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French pasté -- more at
PASTY
Date: 1706
1 : a meat or fish pie or patty
2 : a spread of finely chopped or pureed seasoned meat
<chicken liver pâté>

Main Entry: pâ·té de foie gras 
Pronunciation: (")pä-"tA-d&-"fwä-'grä, (")pa-"tA-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural pâ·tés de foie gras 
/-"tA(z)-/
Etymology: French, literally, pâté of fat liver
Date: 1827
: a pâté of fat goose liver and usually truffles
sometimes with added fat pork

Main Entry: hepat-
Variant(s): or hepato-
Function: combining form
Etymology: Latin, from Greek hEpat-, hEpato-, from
hEpat-, hEpar; akin to Latin jecur liver
1 : liver <hepatectomy> <hepatotoxic>
2 : hepatic and <hepatocellular>

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

"These words, all very obscure, refer to fighting,
combat or conflict, whether actual or metaphorical,
using the suffix '-machy' (from the Greek mache, a
fight)"

http://phrontistery.50megs.com/fight.html

"Hepatomachy" = liver + fight

"all but knocking Pates," "violent feuds over my
patés," "a-riot with Hepatomachy," indeed ...

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