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bate

BATE, n. [It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.]

Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.

BATE, v.t. [The literal sense is, to beat, strike, thrust; to force down. See Beat.]

To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. [We now use abate.]

BATE, v.i. To grow or become less; to remit or retrench a part; with of.

Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine.

Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust.

Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate.

Deep in the flesh, and open'd wide a red flood gate.



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BATE, n. [It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.]

Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.

BATE, v.t. [The literal sense is, to beat, strike, thrust; to force down. See Beat.]

To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. [We now use abate.]

BATE, v.i. To grow or become less; to remit or retrench a part; with of.

Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine.

Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust.

Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate.

Deep in the flesh, and open'd wide a red flood gate.


BATE, n. [Sax. bate, contention. It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.]

Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.


BATE, v.i.

To grow or become less; to remit or retrench a part; with of. Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine. – Dryden. Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust. Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate / Deep in the flesh, and open'd wide a red flood gate.


BATE, v.t. [Fr. battre, to beat, to batter; but perhaps from abattre, to beat down. The literal sense is, to beat, strike, thrust; to force down. See Beat.]

To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. – Locke. Dryden. [We now use abate.]


Bate
  1. Strife; contention.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  2. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing] to abate; to beat down; to lower.

    He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him.
    Locke.

  3. To remit or retrench a part] -- with of.

    Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
    Dryden.

  4. To attack; to bait.

    [Obs.] Spenser.
  5. To flutter as a hawk; to bait.

    [Obs.] Bacon.
  6. See 2d Bath.
  7. An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

    Knight.
  8. To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
  9. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

    To whom he bates nothing of what he stood upon with the parliament.
    South.

  10. To waste away.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  11. To leave out; to except.

    [Obs.]

    Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood,
    He lies that says it.
    Beau. *** Fl.

  12. To remove.

    [Obs.]

    About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
    Holland.

  13. To deprive of.

    [Obs.]

    When baseness is exalted, do not bate
    The place its honor for the person's sake.
    Herbert.

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Bate

BATE, noun [It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.]

Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.

BATE, verb transitive [The literal sense is, to beat, strike, thrust; to force down. See Beat.]

To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. [We now use abate.]

BATE, verb intransitive To grow or become less; to remit or retrench a part; with of.

Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine.

Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust.

Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate

Deep in the flesh, and open'd wide a red flood gate.

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