sake

Purpose; motive.

Advantage; good.

Personal benefit or interest; welfare.

Same as saki.

A Japanese fermented liquor made from rice. It contains from 11 to 17 per cent. of alcohol, and is heated before being drunk.

The generic name in Japan for all kinds of spirituous liquors, whether made from grain or grapes, fermented or distilled.

Strife; contention; dispute.

Fault; guilt.

Purpose; purpose of obtaining or achieving: as, to labor for the sake of subsistence.

Cause; account; reason; interest; regard to any person or thing: as, without sake: now always preceded by for, with a possessive: as, for my sake; for heaven’s sake.