reëat

reëat (third-person singular simple present reëats, present participle reëating, simple past reate, past participle reëaten)

1. Rare spelling of reeat.
   • 1861, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 237:

     I opened the stomach of a seal of aldermanic proportions, who looked as if he had lately been attending a civic feast , and found in it, not turtle, but about a bushel of beautiful prawns, evidently just swallowed, and so fresh that we might have reëaten them ourselves, but for an unworthy prejudice.

   • 1878, The Popular Science Monthly: Supplement, page 174:

     Thus they may happen to be reëaten by man even before assimilation.

   • 1893, Mary Alling Aber, Souls, page 64:

     ... and as bread eaten to-day may not be reëaten to-morrow , so a reality which set vital forces building the non-physical body this week can not set those forces at work next week.