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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Bate \Bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bating}.] [From abate.] 1. 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. 2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. --South. 3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.] Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood. He lies that says it. --Beau. & Fl. 4. To remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. --Holland. 5. To deprive of. [Obs.] When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. --Herbert. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Bating \Bat"ing\, prep. [Strictly p. pr. of {Bate} to abate.] With the exception of; excepting. We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. --Locke. | |
