Bate
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bate¹
- /beɪt/
Sounds like bait · Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”).
verb bates · bating · bated
- To reduce the force of something; to abate. Ah, left ſome Thorn ſhoul'd pierce thy tender Foot, / Or thou ſhoul'dſt fall in flying my purſuit! / To ſharp uneven Ways thy ſteps decline; / Abate thy Speed, and I will bate of mine.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation […] and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the willow wand.
- To cut off, remove, take away. Also about Autumne bate the earth from about the roots of Olives, and lay them bare, but in stead thereof put good mucke thereto.
- To leave out, except, bar. Bate the King, and be he fleſh and blood, / He lyes that ſaies it, thy mother at fifteen / Was black and ſinful to her.
- To waste away. Bardoll, am I not falne away vilely ſince this laſt action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skinne hangs about me like an old Ladies looſe gowne.
- To deprive of. When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […]
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. [W]hen the Landholder's Rent falls, he muſt either bate the Labourer's Wages, or not imploy, or not pay him; which either way makes him feel the want of Money.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction. Theſe are the conditions of his treating with God, to whom he bates nothing or what he ſtood upon with the Parlament: as if Commiſſions of Array could deale with him alſo.
bate²
- /beɪt/
Sounds like bait · Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.
noun
- Strife; contention. […] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories:
verb bates · bating · bated
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- Of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously; to bait. The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]
bate³
- /beɪt/
Sounds like bait · Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).
noun bates
- An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning. The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.
- A vat which contains this liquid.
verb bates · bating · bated
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
bate⁴
- /beɪt/
Sounds like bait · Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
Formed by analogy with eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten).
verb
- simple past of beat; = beat.beat Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.”
bate⁵
- /beɪt/
Sounds like bait · Rhymes with -eɪt
verb bates · bating · bated
- Clipping of masturbate.masturbate
bate⁶
- /beɪt/
Sounds like bait · Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
Variant of beat (“rhythm”).
noun
- direction, course, track What bate are you on now = where are you going and why ? The dog is on some bate = is finding or following a scent.
Bate⁷
Where it comes from
From a diminutive form of Bartholomew.
proper noun Bates
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
- A town in Comoé province, Burkina Faso.
- A village in Nova Gorica municipality, Slovenia.
