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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Abate \A*bate"\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abated, p.
pr. & vb. n. Abating.] [OF. abatre to beat down, F.
abattre, LL. abatere; ab or ad + batere, battere (popular
form for L. batuere to beat). Cf. Bate, Batter.]
1. To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.]
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The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls.
--Edw. Hall.
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2. To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state,
number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to
moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate
pride, zeal, hope.
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His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
--Deut. xxxiv.
7.
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3. To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
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Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds.
--Fuller.
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4. To blunt. [Obs.]
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To abate the edge of envy. --Bacon.
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5. To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.]
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She hath abated me of half my train. --Shak.
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6. (Law)
(a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away
with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
(b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable
to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a
deficiency of assets.
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To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Abate \A*bate\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), n.
Abatement. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Abate \A*bate"\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. i. [See Abate, v. t.]
1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as,
pain abates, a storm abates.
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The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated.
--Macaulay.
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2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to
fail; as, a writ abates.
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To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to
enter into a freehold after the death of the last
possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See
Abatement, 4.
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Syn: To subside; decrease; intermit; decline; diminish;
lessen.
Usage: To Abate, Subside. These words, as here compared,
imply a coming down from some previously raised or
excited state. Abate expresses this in respect to
degrees, and implies a diminution of force or of
intensity; as, the storm abates, the cold abates, the
force of the wind abates; or, the wind abates, a fever
abates. Subside (to settle down) has reference to a
previous state of agitation or commotion; as, the
waves subside after a storm, the wind subsides into a
calm. When the words are used figuratively, the same
distinction should be observed. If we conceive of a
thing as having different degrees of intensity or
strength, the word to be used is abate. Thus we say, a
man's anger abates, the ardor of one's love abates,
``Winter's rage abates''. But if the image be that of
a sinking down into quiet from preceding excitement or
commotion, the word to be used is subside; as, the
tumult of the people subsides, the public mind
subsided into a calm. The same is the case with those
emotions which are tumultuous in their nature; as, his
passion subsides, his joy quickly subsided, his grief
subsided into a pleasing melancholy. Yet if, in such
cases, we were thinking of the degree of violence of
the emotion, we might use abate; as, his joy will
abate in the progress of time; and so in other
instances.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Abate \A*bate"\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abated, p.
pr. & vb. n. Abating.] [OF. abatre to beat down, F.
abattre, LL. abatere; ab or ad + batere, battere (popular
form for L. batuere to beat). Cf. Bate, Batter.]
1. To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.]
The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls.
--Edw. Hall.
2. To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state,
number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to
moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate
pride, zeal, hope.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
--Deut. xxxiv.
7.
3. To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds.
--Fuller.
4. To blunt. [Obs.]
To abate the edge of envy. --Bacon.
5. To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.]
She hath abated me of half my train. --Shak.
6. (Law)
(a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away
with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
(b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable
to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a
deficiency of assets.
To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Abate \A*bate"\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. i. [See Abate, v. t.]
1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as,
pain abates, a storm abates.
The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated.
--Macaulay.
2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to
fail; as, a writ abates.
To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to
enter into a freehold after the death of the last
possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See
Abatement, 4.
Syn: To subside; decrease; intermit; decline; diminish;
lessen.
Usage: To Abate, Subside. These words, as here compared,
imply a coming down from some previously raised or
excited state. Abate expresses this in respect to
degrees, and implies a diminution of force or of
intensity; as, the storm abates, the cold abates, the
force of the wind abates; or, the wind abates, a fever
abates. Subside (to settle down) has reference to a
previous state of agitation or commotion; as, the
waves subside after a storm, the wind subsides into a
calm. When the words are used figuratively, the same
distinction should be observed. If we conceive of a
thing as having different degrees of intensity or
strength, the word to be used is abate. Thus we say, a
man's anger abates, the ardor of one's love abates,
``Winter's rage abates''. But if the image be that of
a sinking down into quiet from preceding excitement or
commotion, the word to be used is subside; as, the
tumult of the people subsides, the public mind
subsided into a calm. The same is the case with those
emotions which are tumultuous in their nature; as, his
passion subsides, his joy quickly subsided, his grief
subsided into a pleasing melancholy. Yet if, in such
cases, we were thinking of the degree of violence of
the emotion, we might use abate; as, his joy will
abate in the progress of time; and so in other
instances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Abate \A*bate\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), n.
Abatement. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
abate
v 1: make less active or intense [syn: slake, slack]
2: become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The
rain let up after a few hours" [syn: let up, slack off,
slack, die away]
From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
abate
Ιταλικά n.
(ετ εκκ it) ο αββάς
Ρουμανικά n.
αββάς
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
abate
Italian n.
abbot
Latvian n.
abbess (gloss: the female superior of a Catholic abbey or nunnery)
Middle English vb.
(alt form enm abaten)
Portuguese n.
slaughter
Portuguese vb.
(pt-verb form of: abater)
Sardinian n.
(lb sc Logudorese Nuorese) abbot
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
Abate
Italian n.
(surname it from=occupations)
Latin n.
(inflection of la Abatos voc s)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
abate
n.
1 (lb en uncountable) abatement; reduction; (lb en countable) an
instance#Noun of this. (15th–17th c.)
2 (lb en uncountable) deduction; subtraction; (lb en countable) an
instance#Noun of this. (17th c.)
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To lessen (something) in force#Noun or intensity; to
moderate#Verb. (from 14th c.)
3 # To reduce (something) in amount#Noun or size#Noun. (from 14th c.)
4 ## To cut#Verb away or hammer#Verb down (material#Noun from
metalwork, a sculpture#Noun, etc.) in such a way as to leave#Verb a
figure#Noun in relief.
5 # To lower#Verb (something) in price#Noun or value#Noun. (from mid
14th c.)
6 # (lb en archaic)
7 ## To demolish or level#Verb to the ground#Noun (a building#Noun or
other structure#Noun). (from early 15th c.)
8 ##* {RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke|part=Henry
VIII|chapter=The .V. Yere|folio=xxxviij|passage=(...) the kyng of
Scottes (...) with all hys hoſte and power entered into Englande (and
threw doune pyles) the .xxij. daye of August, and planted hys ſiege
before the Caſtell of Norham, and ſore '''abated''' the walles.}
9 ## To give#Verb no consideration to (something); to treat#Verb as
an exception. (from late 16th c.)
10 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1 act=V scene=II page=64
passage='''Abate''' throw at Nouum, and the whole world againe,
<br> Cannot picke out fiue ſuch, take each one in his vaine.)
11 ##* (RQ:Boswell Johnson year=1772 page=353 passage=Sir, he was not
Scotch; and, '''abating''' his brutality, he was a very good maſter.)
12 ## (lb en chiefly figuratively) To dull#Verb (an edge#Noun,
point#Noun, etc.); to blunt#Verb. (from mid 16th c.)
13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3
Q1|act=V|scene=viii|page=102|passage='''Abate''' the edge of traitors
gracious Lord, <br> That vvould reduce theſe bloudy daies againe,
<br> And make poore England vveepe in ſtreames of bloud, (...)}
14 ##* (RQ:Bacon Essayes chapter=Of Enuy. IX. pages=45–46 pageref=46
passage=Wherefore you ſhall obſerue that the more deepe, and ſober ſort
of Politique perſons, in their Greatneſſe, are euer bemoaning
themſelues, what a Life they lead; Chanting a ''Quanta patimur''. Not
that they feele it ſo, but onely to '''abate''' the Edge of ''envy
Enuy''.)
15 # (lb en law)
16 ## To make#Verb (a writ#Noun or other legal document#Noun)
void#Adjective; to nullify. (from late 15th c.)
17 ##: (ux en to '''abate''' a writ)
18 ## To put an end to (a nuisance).
19 ##: (ux en She was ordered by the court to '''abate''' the
nuisance.)
20 ##* {RQ:Blackstone Commentaries|book=III|chapter=Of Courts in
General|page=22|passage=(...) the law allows an extrajudicial remedy,
yet that does not exclude the ordinary courſe of juſtice: (...) I may
either '''abate''' a nuſance by my own authority, or call upon the law
to do it for me: (...)}
21 ## (lb en chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring#Verb to an
end#Noun (legal proceeding#Noun) before they are complete#Verb,
especially on procedural#Adjective ground#Noun rather than on the
merit#Noun.
22 # (lb en obsolete)
23 ## To curtail#Verb or end#Verb (something); to cause#Verb to
cease#Verb. (14th–17th c.)
24 ##: (synonyms en cut short stop suppress terminate)
25 ##: (ux en To order restrictions to '''abate''' an emergency.)
26 ## To give (someone) a discount#Noun or rebate#Noun; also, to
relieve (someone) of a debt. (15th–19th c.)
27 ##* {RQ:Franklin Autobiography|page=150|passage=(...) when I
talk'd of a lodging I had heard of, nearer my business, for two
shillings a week, which, intent as I now was on saving money, made some
difference, she bid me not think of it, for she would '''abate''' me two
shillings a week for the future; so I remained with her at one shilling
and sixpence as long as I staid in London.}
28 ## To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower
(someone) in status. (14th–17th c.)
29 ##: (synonyms en abase depress humble)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|year=1534|author=(w: John Bourchier, 2nd Baron
Berners)|title=The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius|page=132|text=He is
honoured amonge theym that be honoured, that fortune '''abateth'''
without faute: and he is shamed amonge theym that be shamed, that
fortune inhanceth without merite.}
31 ##* {quote-book|en|year=1618|year_published=1669|author=Sir
Walter Raleigh|title=Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh|chapter=Maxims of
State|page=27|text=Rules and axioms for preserving of a Kingdom.(...)If
any great person to be '''abated''', not to deal with him by
''calumniation'' or ''forged matter''(...)}
32 ##* {RQ:Taylor Twenty-five Sermons|subtitle=Sermon IX. The faith
and patience of the saints; or, the righteous cause
oppressed.|523|text=So long as the world lived by sense, and
discourses of natural reason, as they were '''abated''' with
human infirmities, and not at all heightened by the Spirit and
divine revelation(...)}
33 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''from''''','' '''of''''', etc.'': to
omit or remove#Verb (a part#Noun from a whole#Noun); to deduct, to
subtract. (15th–19th c.)
34 ##: (ux en We will '''abate''' this price from the total.)
35 ##* {RQ:Fuller Church
History|volume=II|section=III|sectionname=To the Right Worshipful Sir
Richard Shugborough, of Shugborough in Warwickshire|subsection=30–43
(Pope’s Profit by Sale of Trinkets,(nb...: by His Annates, by Appeals,
by King Athelwulph’s Pension, by His Dispensations, by Indulgences, by
Legatine Levies, by Mortuaries, by Pardons, by Peter-Pence, to What They
Amounted, by Pilgrimages, by Tenths.))|page=54|passage=Peter's pence
succeeded; granted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ine%20of%20Wessex,
king of the West Saxons, to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20Gregory%20II. ''anno'' 626. It was
a penny paid for every chimney that smoked in England, which in that
hospitable age had few smokeless ones; (...) Now, though none can tell
what these amounted to, yet conjecture may be made, by descending to
such proportions, which no rational man will deny. Allowing nine
thousand parishes ('''abating''' the odd hundreds) in England and Wales,
a hundred houses in every parish, two chimneys in every house, one with
another, it ariseth unto a yearly sum of seven thousand five hundred
pounds.}
36 ##* (RQ:Twain Prince and the Pauper chapter=The Prince a Prisoner
page=186 passage=Three shillings and eightpence, your worship—I could
not '''abate''' a penny and set forth the value honestly.)
37 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''': to deprive (someone or
something of another thing). (15th–19th c.)
38 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare King Lear
Q1|act=II|scene=ii|page=49|passage=She hath '''abated''' me of halfe my
traine, <br> Lookt blacke vpon me, ſtrooke mee with her tongue
<br> Moſt Serpent-like vpon the very heart, (...)}
39 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Philo-Christianus [pseudonym;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Brough%20(priest)]|chapter=A
Service of the Pleasures of Piety, for Sunday or Other Day. [A
Meditation of the Pleasures of Piety.]|title=Sacred Principles, Services
and Soliloquies: Or, A Manual of Devotions Made Up of Three
Parts:(nb...: I. The Grounds of Christian Religion, and the Doctrine of
the Church of England, as Differing from the Now-Roman, and the
New-Reformed Ones. II. Daily and Weekly Forms of Prayers, Fortified with
Holy Scriptures, Meditations, and Rules to Keep the Soul from the Common
Roads of Sin; and Carry It on in a Mortified Course. III. Seven Charges
to Conscience, Delivering (if Not the Whole Body) the Main Limbs of
Divinity, which is the Art Not of Disputing, but Living Well. the Fourth
Edition, with Some
Amendments.)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by)
J[ohn] G[rismond] for John Clark,(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop,
under Saint Peters Church in
Cornhill.)|year=1659|page=260|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXioN2qyUq0C&pg=PA260|oclc=1118608855|passage=But
O ''Saint''! be not thou an Epicure! If delight draw thy heart, thou
loſeſt ſo much in delectation, as Religion; and '''abateſt''' thy Soul
ſo much of ''Solace'', as God of ''Service''!}
40 (lb en intransitive)
41 # To decrease#Verb in force or intensity; to subside. (from 14th
c.)
42 # To decrease in amount or size. (from mid 16th c.)
43 # To lower in price or value; (lb en law) specifically, of a
bequest#Noun in a will#Noun: to lower in value because the testator's
estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full. (from early
18th c.)
44 # (lb en archaic chiefly figuratively) Of an edge, point, etc.: to
become blunt#Adjective or dull#Adjective. (from mid 16th c.)
45 # (lb en law)
46 ## (lb en chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document:
to become null and void; to cease#Verb to have effect#Noun. (from late
15th c.)
47 ##: (ux en The writ has '''abated'''.)
48 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Edward Coke|authorlink=Edward
Coke|chapter=Where a Writ shall be Brought by Journeys Accompts. Hill.
45 Eliz. Rot. 36. in the Common Pleas. Spencer’s Case.|title=The Reports
of Sir Edward Coke, Kt.(nb...: Late Lord Chief Justice of England. Of
Divers Resolutions and Judgments Given upon Solemn Arguments, and with
Great Deliberation, and Conference of the Most Reverend Judges, and
Sages of the Law; of Cases in Law which Never Were Resolved or Adjudged
before; and the Reasons and Causes of the Said Resolutions and
Judgments. The Second Edition Carefully Compared with the French, and
Purged from Former Errors. With a Table to the
Whole.)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed for) H.
Twyford,(nb...: T. Collins, T. Basset, J. Wright, S. Heyrick, T.
Sawbridge, M. Pitt, C. Harper, and J. Place.)|year=1680|section=part
VI|page=375|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Fl7jCgB_J4C&pg=PA375|oclc=1227559786|passage=But
where the Writ '''abateth''' for default of the Clerk, as where it
'''abateth''' for falſe ''Latin'', or variance, or want of form, there
the defendant ſhall have the benefit of a new Writ by Journeys Accompts,
becauſe it was the fault of the Clerk of the ''Chancery'', and not the
fault of the defendant himſelf, (...)}
49 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Matthew Bacon [''i.e.'', (w: Mathew
Bacon)]|chapter=Error|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon's%20Abridgement|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...:
Printed by)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Strahan%20(publisher) and M.
Woodfall,(nb...: law-printers to His Majesty); for C. Bathurst,(nb...:
W[illiam] Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, P. Uriel, W. Owen, B. Law, B.
White, T. Caslon, T[homas] Longman, W. Stuart, W. Flexney, T. Payne,
T[homas] Cadell, G. Robinson, W. Cater, W. Fox, J. White, J[oseph]
Johnson, E. Brooke, and T. Whieldon and Co.)|year=1778|section=section G
(Of the Proceedings after the Record Removed, and herein of the
Abatement of the Writ of
Error)|page=209|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRw2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP248|oclc=83474735|passage=If
a Writ of Error '''abates''' or diſcontinues by the Act and Default of
the Party, a ſecond Writ of Error ſhall be no ''Superſedeas''; otherwiſe
if it '''abates''' or diſcontinues by the Act of God or the Law.}
50 ## (lb en chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or
otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on
procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
51 ##* {RQ:Blackstone Commentaries|book=III|chapter=Of
Pleading|page=302|passage=(...) in actions ariſing ''ex contractu'', by
breach of promiſe and the like, where the right deſcends to the
repreſentatives of the plaintiff, and thoſe of the defendant have aſſets
to anſwer the demand, though the ſuits ſhall '''abate''' by the death of
the parties, yet they may be revived againſt or by the executors: being
indeed rather actions againſt the property than the perſon, in which the
executors now have the ſame intereſt that their teſtator had before.}
52 # (lb en obsolete)
53 ## To give a discount or rebate; to discount#Verb, to rebate#Verb.
(16th–19th c.)
54 ## To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled. (14th–17th c.)
55 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''': to deduct or subtract from.
(15th–19th c.)
56 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=V|stanza=III|page=194|passage=So toilsome was the road to
trace, <br> The guide, '''abating''' of his pace, <br> Led
slowly through the pass's jaws, (...)}
57 ##* (RQ:Melville Mardi volume=I chapter=Taji Takes Counsel with
Himself pages=208–209 pageref=209 passage=So then, weighing all things
well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise
counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor '''abating''' of just dues; but
circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes,
high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of
Mardi.)
vb.
(lb en ambitransitive law chiefly historical) To enter#Verb upon and
unlawfully seize (land#Noun) after the owner has die#Verb, thus
preventing an heir from take#Verb possession of it. (from mid 15th c.)
alt.
(alter en abbate)
n.
An Italian#Adjective abbot or other member of the clergy. (from early
18th c.)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
Abate
n.
(surname en from=Italian).
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
abate
Latvian n.
abbess (gloss: the female superior of a Catholic abbey or nunnery)
Lithuanian n.
1 (noun form of lt abatas loc s)
2 (noun form of lt abatė ins s)
n.
1 (lb en uncountable) abatement; reduction; (lb en countable) an
instance#Noun of this. (15th–17th c.)
2 (lb en uncountable) deduction; subtraction; (lb en countable) an
instance#Noun of this. (17th c.)
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To lessen (something) in force#Noun or intensity; to
moderate#Verb. (from 14th c.)
3 # To reduce (something) in amount#Noun or size#Noun. (from 14th c.)
4 ## To cut#Verb away or hammer#Verb down (material#Noun from
metalwork, a sculpture#Noun, etc.) in such a way as to leave#Verb a
figure#Noun in relief.
5 # To lower#Verb (something) in price#Noun or value#Noun. (from mid
14th c.)
6 # (lb en archaic)
7 ## To demolish or level#Verb to the ground#Noun (a building#Noun or
other structure#Noun). (from early 15th c.)
8 ##* {RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke|part=Henry
VIII|chapter=The .V. Yere|folio=xxxviij|passage=(...) the kyng of
Scottes (...) with all hys hoſte and power entered into Englande (and
threw doune pyles) the .xxij. daye of August, and planted hys ſiege
before the Caſtell of Norham, and ſore '''abated''' the walles.}
9 ## To give#Verb no consideration to (something); to treat#Verb as
an exception. (from late 16th c.)
10 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1 act=V scene=II page=64
passage='''Abate''' throw at Nouum, and the whole world againe,
<br> Cannot picke out fiue ſuch, take each one in his vaine.)
11 ##* (RQ:Boswell Johnson year=1772 page=353 passage=Sir, he was not
Scotch; and, '''abating''' his brutality, he was a very good maſter.)
12 ## (lb en chiefly figuratively) To dull#Verb (an edge#Noun,
point#Noun, etc.); to blunt#Verb. (from mid 16th c.)
13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3
Q1|act=V|scene=viii|page=102|passage='''Abate''' the edge of traitors
gracious Lord, <br> That vvould reduce theſe bloudy daies againe,
<br> And make poore England vveepe in ſtreames of bloud, (...)}
14 ##* (RQ:Bacon Essayes chapter=Of Enuy. IX. pages=45–46 pageref=46
passage=Wherefore you ſhall obſerue that the more deepe, and ſober ſort
of Politique perſons, in their Greatneſſe, are euer bemoaning
themſelues, what a Life they lead; Chanting a ''Quanta patimur''. Not
that they feele it ſo, but onely to '''abate''' the Edge of ''envy
Enuy''.)
15 # (lb en law)
16 ## To make#Verb (a writ#Noun or other legal document#Noun)
void#Adjective; to nullify. (from late 15th c.)
17 ##: (ux en to '''abate''' a writ)
18 ## To put an end to (a nuisance).
19 ##: (ux en She was ordered by the court to '''abate''' the
nuisance.)
20 ##* {RQ:Blackstone Commentaries|book=III|chapter=Of Courts in
General|page=22|passage=(...) the law allows an extrajudicial remedy,
yet that does not exclude the ordinary courſe of juſtice: (...) I may
either '''abate''' a nuſance by my own authority, or call upon the law
to do it for me: (...)}
21 ## (lb en chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring#Verb to an
end#Noun (legal proceeding#Noun) before they are complete#Verb,
especially on procedural#Adjective ground#Noun rather than on the
merit#Noun.
22 # (lb en obsolete)
23 ## To curtail#Verb or end#Verb (something); to cause#Verb to
cease#Verb. (14th–17th c.)
24 ##: (synonyms en cut short stop suppress terminate)
25 ##: (ux en To order restrictions to '''abate''' an emergency.)
26 ## To give (someone) a discount#Noun or rebate#Noun; also, to
relieve (someone) of a debt. (15th–19th c.)
27 ##* {RQ:Franklin Autobiography|page=150|passage=(...) when I
talk'd of a lodging I had heard of, nearer my business, for two
shillings a week, which, intent as I now was on saving money, made some
difference, she bid me not think of it, for she would '''abate''' me two
shillings a week for the future; so I remained with her at one shilling
and sixpence as long as I staid in London.}
28 ## To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower
(someone) in status. (14th–17th c.)
29 ##: (synonyms en abase depress humble)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|year=1534|author=(w: John Bourchier, 2nd Baron
Berners)|title=The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius|page=132|text=He is
honoured amonge theym that be honoured, that fortune '''abateth'''
without faute: and he is shamed amonge theym that be shamed, that
fortune inhanceth without merite.}
31 ##* {quote-book|en|year=1618|year_published=1669|author=Sir
Walter Raleigh|title=Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh|chapter=Maxims of
State|page=27|text=Rules and axioms for preserving of a Kingdom.(...)If
any great person to be '''abated''', not to deal with him by
''calumniation'' or ''forged matter''(...)}
32 ##* {RQ:Taylor Twenty-five Sermons|subtitle=Sermon IX. The faith
and patience of the saints; or, the righteous cause
oppressed.|523|text=So long as the world lived by sense, and
discourses of natural reason, as they were '''abated''' with
human infirmities, and not at all heightened by the Spirit and
divine revelation(...)}
33 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''from''''','' '''of''''', etc.'': to
omit or remove#Verb (a part#Noun from a whole#Noun); to deduct, to
subtract. (15th–19th c.)
34 ##: (ux en We will '''abate''' this price from the total.)
35 ##* {RQ:Fuller Church
History|volume=II|section=III|sectionname=To the Right Worshipful Sir
Richard Shugborough, of Shugborough in Warwickshire|subsection=30–43
(Pope’s Profit by Sale of Trinkets,(nb...: by His Annates, by Appeals,
by King Athelwulph’s Pension, by His Dispensations, by Indulgences, by
Legatine Levies, by Mortuaries, by Pardons, by Peter-Pence, to What They
Amounted, by Pilgrimages, by Tenths.))|page=54|passage=Peter's pence
succeeded; granted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ine%20of%20Wessex,
king of the West Saxons, to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20Gregory%20II. ''anno'' 626. It was
a penny paid for every chimney that smoked in England, which in that
hospitable age had few smokeless ones; (...) Now, though none can tell
what these amounted to, yet conjecture may be made, by descending to
such proportions, which no rational man will deny. Allowing nine
thousand parishes ('''abating''' the odd hundreds) in England and Wales,
a hundred houses in every parish, two chimneys in every house, one with
another, it ariseth unto a yearly sum of seven thousand five hundred
pounds.}
36 ##* (RQ:Twain Prince and the Pauper chapter=The Prince a Prisoner
page=186 passage=Three shillings and eightpence, your worship—I could
not '''abate''' a penny and set forth the value honestly.)
37 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''': to deprive (someone or
something of another thing). (15th–19th c.)
38 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare King Lear
Q1|act=II|scene=ii|page=49|passage=She hath '''abated''' me of halfe my
traine, <br> Lookt blacke vpon me, ſtrooke mee with her tongue
<br> Moſt Serpent-like vpon the very heart, (...)}
39 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Philo-Christianus [pseudonym;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Brough%20(priest)]|chapter=A
Service of the Pleasures of Piety, for Sunday or Other Day. [A
Meditation of the Pleasures of Piety.]|title=Sacred Principles, Services
and Soliloquies: Or, A Manual of Devotions Made Up of Three
Parts:(nb...: I. The Grounds of Christian Religion, and the Doctrine of
the Church of England, as Differing from the Now-Roman, and the
New-Reformed Ones. II. Daily and Weekly Forms of Prayers, Fortified with
Holy Scriptures, Meditations, and Rules to Keep the Soul from the Common
Roads of Sin; and Carry It on in a Mortified Course. III. Seven Charges
to Conscience, Delivering (if Not the Whole Body) the Main Limbs of
Divinity, which is the Art Not of Disputing, but Living Well. the Fourth
Edition, with Some
Amendments.)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by)
J[ohn] G[rismond] for John Clark,(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop,
under Saint Peters Church in
Cornhill.)|year=1659|page=260|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXioN2qyUq0C&pg=PA260|oclc=1118608855|passage=But
O ''Saint''! be not thou an Epicure! If delight draw thy heart, thou
loſeſt ſo much in delectation, as Religion; and '''abateſt''' thy Soul
ſo much of ''Solace'', as God of ''Service''!}
40 (lb en intransitive)
41 # To decrease#Verb in force or intensity; to subside. (from 14th
c.)
42 # To decrease in amount or size. (from mid 16th c.)
43 # To lower in price or value; (lb en law) specifically, of a
bequest#Noun in a will#Noun: to lower in value because the testator's
estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full. (from early
18th c.)
44 # (lb en archaic chiefly figuratively) Of an edge, point, etc.: to
become blunt#Adjective or dull#Adjective. (from mid 16th c.)
45 # (lb en law)
46 ## (lb en chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document:
to become null and void; to cease#Verb to have effect#Noun. (from late
15th c.)
47 ##: (ux en The writ has '''abated'''.)
48 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Edward Coke|authorlink=Edward
Coke|chapter=Where a Writ shall be Brought by Journeys Accompts. Hill.
45 Eliz. Rot. 36. in the Common Pleas. Spencer’s Case.|title=The Reports
of Sir Edward Coke, Kt.(nb...: Late Lord Chief Justice of England. Of
Divers Resolutions and Judgments Given upon Solemn Arguments, and with
Great Deliberation, and Conference of the Most Reverend Judges, and
Sages of the Law; of Cases in Law which Never Were Resolved or Adjudged
before; and the Reasons and Causes of the Said Resolutions and
Judgments. The Second Edition Carefully Compared with the French, and
Purged from Former Errors. With a Table to the
Whole.)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed for) H.
Twyford,(nb...: T. Collins, T. Basset, J. Wright, S. Heyrick, T.
Sawbridge, M. Pitt, C. Harper, and J. Place.)|year=1680|section=part
VI|page=375|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Fl7jCgB_J4C&pg=PA375|oclc=1227559786|passage=But
where the Writ '''abateth''' for default of the Clerk, as where it
'''abateth''' for falſe ''Latin'', or variance, or want of form, there
the defendant ſhall have the benefit of a new Writ by Journeys Accompts,
becauſe it was the fault of the Clerk of the ''Chancery'', and not the
fault of the defendant himſelf, (...)}
49 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Matthew Bacon [''i.e.'', (w: Mathew
Bacon)]|chapter=Error|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon's%20Abridgement|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...:
Printed by)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Strahan%20(publisher) and M.
Woodfall,(nb...: law-printers to His Majesty); for C. Bathurst,(nb...:
W[illiam] Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, P. Uriel, W. Owen, B. Law, B.
White, T. Caslon, T[homas] Longman, W. Stuart, W. Flexney, T. Payne,
T[homas] Cadell, G. Robinson, W. Cater, W. Fox, J. White, J[oseph]
Johnson, E. Brooke, and T. Whieldon and Co.)|year=1778|section=section G
(Of the Proceedings after the Record Removed, and herein of the
Abatement of the Writ of
Error)|page=209|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRw2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP248|oclc=83474735|passage=If
a Writ of Error '''abates''' or diſcontinues by the Act and Default of
the Party, a ſecond Writ of Error ſhall be no ''Superſedeas''; otherwiſe
if it '''abates''' or diſcontinues by the Act of God or the Law.}
50 ## (lb en chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or
otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on
procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
51 ##* {RQ:Blackstone Commentaries|book=III|chapter=Of
Pleading|page=302|passage=(...) in actions ariſing ''ex contractu'', by
breach of promiſe and the like, where the right deſcends to the
repreſentatives of the plaintiff, and thoſe of the defendant have aſſets
to anſwer the demand, though the ſuits ſhall '''abate''' by the death of
the parties, yet they may be revived againſt or by the executors: being
indeed rather actions againſt the property than the perſon, in which the
executors now have the ſame intereſt that their teſtator had before.}
52 # (lb en obsolete)
53 ## To give a discount or rebate; to discount#Verb, to rebate#Verb.
(16th–19th c.)
54 ## To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled. (14th–17th c.)
55 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''': to deduct or subtract from.
(15th–19th c.)
56 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=V|stanza=III|page=194|passage=So toilsome was the road to
trace, <br> The guide, '''abating''' of his pace, <br> Led
slowly through the pass's jaws, (...)}
57 ##* (RQ:Melville Mardi volume=I chapter=Taji Takes Counsel with
Himself pages=208–209 pageref=209 passage=So then, weighing all things
well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise
counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor '''abating''' of just dues; but
circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes,
high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of
Mardi.)
vb.
(lb en ambitransitive law chiefly historical) To enter#Verb upon and
unlawfully seize (land#Noun) after the owner has die#Verb, thus
preventing an heir from take#Verb possession of it. (from mid 15th c.)
alt.
(alter en abbate)
n.
An Italian#Adjective abbot or other member of the clergy. (from early
18th c.)
Romanian vb.
1 to stray (q: often figuratively in a moral sense), derogate,
deviate, divert from, digress
2 to change paths, swerve from, wander from
3 (lb ro reflexive) to stop (q: going a certain way)
4 to dissuade
5 to knock down
Romanian n.
abbot
Spanish n.
(lb es Spain 19th century) a clergyman from Italy or France, or that
has resided there.
Spanish vb.
(es-verb form of: abatir)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
Abate
Italian n.
(surname it from=occupations)
Latin n.
(inflection of la Abatos voc s)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
abate
Latvian n.
abbess (gloss: the female superior of a Catholic abbey or nunnery)
Lithuanian n.
1 (noun form of lt abatas loc s)
2 (noun form of lt abatė ins s)
n.
1 (lb en uncountable) abatement; reduction; (lb en countable) an
instance#Noun of this. (15th–17th c.)
2 (lb en uncountable) deduction; subtraction; (lb en countable) an
instance#Noun of this. (17th c.)
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To lessen (something) in force#Noun or intensity; to
moderate#Verb. (from 14th c.)
3 # To reduce (something) in amount#Noun or size#Noun. (from 14th c.)
4 ## To cut#Verb away or hammer#Verb down (material#Noun from
metalwork, a sculpture#Noun, etc.) in such a way as to leave#Verb a
figure#Noun in relief.
5 # To lower#Verb (something) in price#Noun or value#Noun. (from mid
14th c.)
6 # (lb en archaic)
7 ## To demolish or level#Verb to the ground#Noun (a building#Noun or
other structure#Noun). (from early 15th c.)
8 ##* {RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke|part=Henry
VIII|chapter=The .V. Yere|folio=xxxviij|passage=(...) the kyng of
Scottes (...) with all hys hoſte and power entered into Englande (and
threw doune pyles) the .xxij. daye of August, and planted hys ſiege
before the Caſtell of Norham, and ſore '''abated''' the walles.}
9 ## To give#Verb no consideration to (something); to treat#Verb as
an exception. (from late 16th c.)
10 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1 act=V scene=II page=64
passage='''Abate''' throw at Nouum, and the whole world againe,
<br> Cannot picke out fiue ſuch, take each one in his vaine.)
11 ##* (RQ:Boswell Johnson year=1772 page=353 passage=Sir, he was not
Scotch; and, '''abating''' his brutality, he was a very good maſter.)
12 ## (lb en chiefly figuratively) To dull#Verb (an edge#Noun,
point#Noun, etc.); to blunt#Verb. (from mid 16th c.)
13 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3
Q1|act=V|scene=viii|page=102|passage='''Abate''' the edge of traitors
gracious Lord, <br> That vvould reduce theſe bloudy daies againe,
<br> And make poore England vveepe in ſtreames of bloud, (...)}
14 ##* (RQ:Bacon Essayes chapter=Of Enuy. IX. pages=45–46 pageref=46
passage=Wherefore you ſhall obſerue that the more deepe, and ſober ſort
of Politique perſons, in their Greatneſſe, are euer bemoaning
themſelues, what a Life they lead; Chanting a ''Quanta patimur''. Not
that they feele it ſo, but onely to '''abate''' the Edge of ''envy
Enuy''.)
15 # (lb en law)
16 ## To make#Verb (a writ#Noun or other legal document#Noun)
void#Adjective; to nullify. (from late 15th c.)
17 ##: (ux en to '''abate''' a writ)
18 ## To put an end to (a nuisance).
19 ##: (ux en She was ordered by the court to '''abate''' the
nuisance.)
20 ##* {RQ:Blackstone Commentaries|book=III|chapter=Of Courts in
General|page=22|passage=(...) the law allows an extrajudicial remedy,
yet that does not exclude the ordinary courſe of juſtice: (...) I may
either '''abate''' a nuſance by my own authority, or call upon the law
to do it for me: (...)}
21 ## (lb en chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring#Verb to an
end#Noun (legal proceeding#Noun) before they are complete#Verb,
especially on procedural#Adjective ground#Noun rather than on the
merit#Noun.
22 # (lb en obsolete)
23 ## To curtail#Verb or end#Verb (something); to cause#Verb to
cease#Verb. (14th–17th c.)
24 ##: (synonyms en cut short stop suppress terminate)
25 ##: (ux en To order restrictions to '''abate''' an emergency.)
26 ## To give (someone) a discount#Noun or rebate#Noun; also, to
relieve (someone) of a debt. (15th–19th c.)
27 ##* {RQ:Franklin Autobiography|page=150|passage=(...) when I
talk'd of a lodging I had heard of, nearer my business, for two
shillings a week, which, intent as I now was on saving money, made some
difference, she bid me not think of it, for she would '''abate''' me two
shillings a week for the future; so I remained with her at one shilling
and sixpence as long as I staid in London.}
28 ## To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower
(someone) in status. (14th–17th c.)
29 ##: (synonyms en abase depress humble)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|year=1534|author=(w: John Bourchier, 2nd Baron
Berners)|title=The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius|page=132|text=He is
honoured amonge theym that be honoured, that fortune '''abateth'''
without faute: and he is shamed amonge theym that be shamed, that
fortune inhanceth without merite.}
31 ##* {quote-book|en|year=1618|year_published=1669|author=Sir
Walter Raleigh|title=Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh|chapter=Maxims of
State|page=27|text=Rules and axioms for preserving of a Kingdom.(...)If
any great person to be '''abated''', not to deal with him by
''calumniation'' or ''forged matter''(...)}
32 ##* {RQ:Taylor Twenty-five Sermons|subtitle=Sermon IX. The faith
and patience of the saints; or, the righteous cause
oppressed.|523|text=So long as the world lived by sense, and
discourses of natural reason, as they were '''abated''' with
human infirmities, and not at all heightened by the Spirit and
divine revelation(...)}
33 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''from''''','' '''of''''', etc.'': to
omit or remove#Verb (a part#Noun from a whole#Noun); to deduct, to
subtract. (15th–19th c.)
34 ##: (ux en We will '''abate''' this price from the total.)
35 ##* {RQ:Fuller Church
History|volume=II|section=III|sectionname=To the Right Worshipful Sir
Richard Shugborough, of Shugborough in Warwickshire|subsection=30–43
(Pope’s Profit by Sale of Trinkets,(nb...: by His Annates, by Appeals,
by King Athelwulph’s Pension, by His Dispensations, by Indulgences, by
Legatine Levies, by Mortuaries, by Pardons, by Peter-Pence, to What They
Amounted, by Pilgrimages, by Tenths.))|page=54|passage=Peter's pence
succeeded; granted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ine%20of%20Wessex,
king of the West Saxons, to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20Gregory%20II. ''anno'' 626. It was
a penny paid for every chimney that smoked in England, which in that
hospitable age had few smokeless ones; (...) Now, though none can tell
what these amounted to, yet conjecture may be made, by descending to
such proportions, which no rational man will deny. Allowing nine
thousand parishes ('''abating''' the odd hundreds) in England and Wales,
a hundred houses in every parish, two chimneys in every house, one with
another, it ariseth unto a yearly sum of seven thousand five hundred
pounds.}
36 ##* (RQ:Twain Prince and the Pauper chapter=The Prince a Prisoner
page=186 passage=Three shillings and eightpence, your worship—I could
not '''abate''' a penny and set forth the value honestly.)
37 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''': to deprive (someone or
something of another thing). (15th–19th c.)
38 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare King Lear
Q1|act=II|scene=ii|page=49|passage=She hath '''abated''' me of halfe my
traine, <br> Lookt blacke vpon me, ſtrooke mee with her tongue
<br> Moſt Serpent-like vpon the very heart, (...)}
39 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Philo-Christianus [pseudonym;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Brough%20(priest)]|chapter=A
Service of the Pleasures of Piety, for Sunday or Other Day. [A
Meditation of the Pleasures of Piety.]|title=Sacred Principles, Services
and Soliloquies: Or, A Manual of Devotions Made Up of Three
Parts:(nb...: I. The Grounds of Christian Religion, and the Doctrine of
the Church of England, as Differing from the Now-Roman, and the
New-Reformed Ones. II. Daily and Weekly Forms of Prayers, Fortified with
Holy Scriptures, Meditations, and Rules to Keep the Soul from the Common
Roads of Sin; and Carry It on in a Mortified Course. III. Seven Charges
to Conscience, Delivering (if Not the Whole Body) the Main Limbs of
Divinity, which is the Art Not of Disputing, but Living Well. the Fourth
Edition, with Some
Amendments.)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by)
J[ohn] G[rismond] for John Clark,(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop,
under Saint Peters Church in
Cornhill.)|year=1659|page=260|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXioN2qyUq0C&pg=PA260|oclc=1118608855|passage=But
O ''Saint''! be not thou an Epicure! If delight draw thy heart, thou
loſeſt ſo much in delectation, as Religion; and '''abateſt''' thy Soul
ſo much of ''Solace'', as God of ''Service''!}
40 (lb en intransitive)
41 # To decrease#Verb in force or intensity; to subside. (from 14th
c.)
42 # To decrease in amount or size. (from mid 16th c.)
43 # To lower in price or value; (lb en law) specifically, of a
bequest#Noun in a will#Noun: to lower in value because the testator's
estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full. (from early
18th c.)
44 # (lb en archaic chiefly figuratively) Of an edge, point, etc.: to
become blunt#Adjective or dull#Adjective. (from mid 16th c.)
45 # (lb en law)
46 ## (lb en chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document:
to become null and void; to cease#Verb to have effect#Noun. (from late
15th c.)
47 ##: (ux en The writ has '''abated'''.)
48 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Edward Coke|authorlink=Edward
Coke|chapter=Where a Writ shall be Brought by Journeys Accompts. Hill.
45 Eliz. Rot. 36. in the Common Pleas. Spencer’s Case.|title=The Reports
of Sir Edward Coke, Kt.(nb...: Late Lord Chief Justice of England. Of
Divers Resolutions and Judgments Given upon Solemn Arguments, and with
Great Deliberation, and Conference of the Most Reverend Judges, and
Sages of the Law; of Cases in Law which Never Were Resolved or Adjudged
before; and the Reasons and Causes of the Said Resolutions and
Judgments. The Second Edition Carefully Compared with the French, and
Purged from Former Errors. With a Table to the
Whole.)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed for) H.
Twyford,(nb...: T. Collins, T. Basset, J. Wright, S. Heyrick, T.
Sawbridge, M. Pitt, C. Harper, and J. Place.)|year=1680|section=part
VI|page=375|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Fl7jCgB_J4C&pg=PA375|oclc=1227559786|passage=But
where the Writ '''abateth''' for default of the Clerk, as where it
'''abateth''' for falſe ''Latin'', or variance, or want of form, there
the defendant ſhall have the benefit of a new Writ by Journeys Accompts,
becauſe it was the fault of the Clerk of the ''Chancery'', and not the
fault of the defendant himſelf, (...)}
49 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Matthew Bacon [''i.e.'', (w: Mathew
Bacon)]|chapter=Error|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon's%20Abridgement|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...:
Printed by)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Strahan%20(publisher) and M.
Woodfall,(nb...: law-printers to His Majesty); for C. Bathurst,(nb...:
W[illiam] Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, P. Uriel, W. Owen, B. Law, B.
White, T. Caslon, T[homas] Longman, W. Stuart, W. Flexney, T. Payne,
T[homas] Cadell, G. Robinson, W. Cater, W. Fox, J. White, J[oseph]
Johnson, E. Brooke, and T. Whieldon and Co.)|year=1778|section=section G
(Of the Proceedings after the Record Removed, and herein of the
Abatement of the Writ of
Error)|page=209|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRw2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP248|oclc=83474735|passage=If
a Writ of Error '''abates''' or diſcontinues by the Act and Default of
the Party, a ſecond Writ of Error ſhall be no ''Superſedeas''; otherwiſe
if it '''abates''' or diſcontinues by the Act of God or the Law.}
50 ## (lb en chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or
otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on
procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
51 ##* {RQ:Blackstone Commentaries|book=III|chapter=Of
Pleading|page=302|passage=(...) in actions ariſing ''ex contractu'', by
breach of promiſe and the like, where the right deſcends to the
repreſentatives of the plaintiff, and thoſe of the defendant have aſſets
to anſwer the demand, though the ſuits ſhall '''abate''' by the death of
the parties, yet they may be revived againſt or by the executors: being
indeed rather actions againſt the property than the perſon, in which the
executors now have the ſame intereſt that their teſtator had before.}
52 # (lb en obsolete)
53 ## To give a discount or rebate; to discount#Verb, to rebate#Verb.
(16th–19th c.)
54 ## To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled. (14th–17th c.)
55 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''': to deduct or subtract from.
(15th–19th c.)
56 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=V|stanza=III|page=194|passage=So toilsome was the road to
trace, <br> The guide, '''abating''' of his pace, <br> Led
slowly through the pass's jaws, (...)}
57 ##* (RQ:Melville Mardi volume=I chapter=Taji Takes Counsel with
Himself pages=208–209 pageref=209 passage=So then, weighing all things
well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise
counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor '''abating''' of just dues; but
circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes,
high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of
Mardi.)
vb.
(lb en ambitransitive law chiefly historical) To enter#Verb upon and
unlawfully seize (land#Noun) after the owner has die#Verb, thus
preventing an heir from take#Verb possession of it. (from mid 15th c.)
alt.
(alter en abbate)
n.
An Italian#Adjective abbot or other member of the clergy. (from early
18th c.)
Sardinian n.
(lb sc Logudorese Nuorese) abbot
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
Abate
Italian n.
(surname it from=occupations)
Latin n.
(inflection of la Abatos voc s)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
abate
Espanja n.
(yhteys k=es uskonto) pappi (erityisesti italialainen tai
ranskalainen)
Espanja vb.
(es-v-taivm 3 abat e)
Italia n.
apotti
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
abate
Engelska vb.
1 minska, dämpa
2 avta
Italienska n.
abbot
Spanska vb.
(böjning es verb abatir)
From Deutsch-français FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:deu-fra ]
Abate /aˈbaːtə/
abbé
katholische Kirche: Titel eines Weltgeistlichen in Italien und Spanien
From Deutsch-español FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:deu-spa ]
Abate /aˈbaːtə/
abate
katholische Kirche: Titel eines Weltgeistlichen in Italien und Spanien
From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
verminder
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
1. خفّف
2. أخمد
3. يلغي
4. يبطل
5. همد
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
abate //əˈbeɪt//
намалявам, понижавам, прекратявам, притъпявам, провалям се, стихвам
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
zmírnění
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
[prav] zrušit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
zmenšit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
zmírnit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
zmenšovat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
ustávat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
[prav] zastavit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
učinit přítrž čemu
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
[prav] stát se neplatným
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
snížit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
slábnout
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
skoncovat s
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
rušit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
poskytovat slevu
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
polevit
Note: o větru
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
odečítat
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
abflauen, abklingen, nachlassen , sich legen
"We'll have to wait until the rain abates/subsides." - Wir müssen warten, bis der Regen nachlässt.
"The swelling will abate/subside in a couple of hours." - Der Schmerz wird in ein paar Stunden abklingen.
"Her initial excitement has abated/subsided." - Ihre anfängliche Aufregung hat sich gelegt.
Synonyms: subside, die down
see: abating, subsiding, dying down, abated, subsided, died down, abates, subsides, dies down, abated, subsided, died down
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
verringern [ein negatives Phänomen] , vermindern, reduzieren
see: abating, abated
Note: a negative phenomenon
From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
κοπάζω, μειώνω
From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
abate //əˈbeɪt//
1. lannistua, nöyrtyä
(obsolete) to be abased or humbled
2. alentaa, halventaa, lannistaa, nöyryyttää
(obsolete) to bring down (someone) mentally or physically
3. lopettaa
(obsolete) to curtail or end (something)
4. hillitä
(obsolete) to deprive (someone or something of another thing)
5. vähentää
(obsolete) to omit or remove (a part from a whole)
6. hävittää, hävittää maan tasalle, tuhota
demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure)
7. raueta
of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void
8. alentua, halventua, pienentyä, vähentyä
to decrease in amount or size
9. alentua, heikentyä, heiketä, hellittää, laantua, lauhtua
to decrease in force or intensity
10. lukuun ottamatta, pois lukien, poislukien
to give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception
11. heikentää
to lessen (something) in force or intensity
12. mitätöidä
to make (a writ or other legal document) void
13. alentaa, halventaa, pienentää, vähentää
to reduce (something) in amount or size
From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 : [ freedict:eng-fra ]
abate /əbeit/
1. s'abaisser, s'abattre
2. abaisser, abréger, amoindrir, diminuer
3. s'amoindrir
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
1. कम~होना
"Students' interest in studies seems to have abated."
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
dokinuti, jenjati, jenjavati, opadati, opadati (voda), otupiti oštricu, pasti, poništiti, popustiti, smanjiti, sniziti, ublažiti, ukinuti, umanjiti, utišati
From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 : [ freedict:eng-ita ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
1. diminuire
From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 : [ freedict:eng-lit ]
abate /ə'beıt/
1. (su)mažėti, (su)silpnėti, (nu)rimti, (nu)sekti, (nu)slūgti (apie vandenį)
2. (su)mažinti, (pa)lengvinti
3. nuleisti (kainą)
4. (at)šipinti, (at)bukinti, (ap)tašyti (akmenį)
5. (teis.) (pa)naikinti, anuliuoti, nutraukti
6. (metal.) atleisti (plieną)
From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-nor ]
abate //əˈbeɪt//
1. forminske, forringe, redusere, slå ned
2. slå ned, ydmyke
(obsolete) to bring down (someone) mentally or physically
3. avta, forminske, løye, minke
to lessen (something) in force or intensity
From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
abate /əˈbeɪt/
zelżeć
From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-por ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
abater, diminuir, enfraquecer
From English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 : [ freedict:eng-spa ]
abate /əbeit/
1. calmarse, sosegarse
2. amainar
3. disminuir
4. decrecer, menguar
From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]
abate //əˈbeɪt//
1. försvagas
(obsolete) to be abased or humbled
2. nedbringa, slå ned
(obsolete) to bring down (someone) mentally or physically
3. upphäva 2.
(obsolete) to curtail or end (something)
3.
to make (a writ or other legal document) void
4. förringa, minska
(obsolete) to deprive (someone or something of another thing)
5. dra av
(obsolete) to omit or remove (a part from a whole)
6. upphävas
of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void
7. utesluta
to give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception
8. avta, minska, avklinga, mojna
to lessen (something) in force or intensity
9. minska, avta, lägga sig
to reduce (something) in amount or size
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
abate /ɐbˈeɪt/
1. azaltmak, indirmek
2. kısmen yahut tamamıyla kesmek
3. azalmak, eksilmek, hafiflemek, çekilmek
4. hükmü kalmamak abatement azaltma, azaltılma, azalış, tenzil
5. kesilmiş yahut indirilmiş meblâğ.
From italiano-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-bul ]
abate //aˈbate//
игумен, абат
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From Italian-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:ita-deu ]
abate /abˈate/
Abt
From italiano-ελληνικά FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-ell ]
abate //aˈbate//
ηγούμενος, αβάς
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From Italian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:ita-eng ]
abate /abˈate/
abbot
From italiano-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-fin ]
abate //aˈbate//
apotti
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-jpn ]
abate //aˈbate//
修道院長
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-lietuvių kalba FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-lit ]
abate //aˈbate//
abatas
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-Nederlands FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-nld ]
abate //aˈbate//
abt, kloosteroverste
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-nor ]
abate //aˈbate//
abbed
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-język polski FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-pol ]
abate //aˈbate//
opat
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-português FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-por ]
abate //aˈbate//
abade
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-Русский FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-rus ]
abate //aˈbate//
аббат, игумен
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-español FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-spa ]
abate //aˈbate//
abad
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-swe ]
abate //aˈbate//
abbot, abbé
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From italiano-Türkçe FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:ita-tur ]
abate //aˈbate//
başrahip
} superiore di un'abbazia o di un monastero
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/əˈbeɪt/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "abate":
ablate, abolish, abrade, abrogate, abstract, adjust to, allay,
alleviate, allow, alter, anesthetize, annihilate, annul, appease,
assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away,
benumb, blot out, blunt, box in, charge off, chasten, circumscribe,
close, condition, constrain, consume, consume away, control,
corrode, cramp, cripple, crumble, curtail, cushion, cut, damp,
dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debilitate, decline,
decrease, deduct, deliquesce, depreciate, derogate, detract,
devitalize, die away, die down, dilute, diminish, discount,
disparage, dive, downplay, drain, drop, drop off, dull, dwindle,
ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, enervate,
enfeeble, eradicate, erode, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate,
exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extract, fall, fall away,
fall off, file away, foment, give relief, gruel, hedge,
hedge about, impair, invalidate, keep within bounds, kick back,
languish, lay, lay low, leach, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down,
let up, lighten, limit, loose, loosen, lull, make allowance,
melt away, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, narrow,
negate, nullify, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, play down, plummet,
plunge, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, purify, qualify,
quash, rattle, rebate, recede, reduce, reduce the temperature,
refine, refund, regulate by, relax, relent, relieve, remit, remove,
restrain, restrict, retrench, root out, rub away, run its course,
run low, sag, salve, sap, season, set conditions, set limits,
shake, shake up, shorten, shrink, sink, slack, slack off, slack up,
slacken, slake, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften,
soften up, soothe, stifle, stupe, subduct, subdue, subside,
subtract, suppress, tail off, take a premium, take away, take from,
take off, tame, taper, taper off, temper, thin, thin out,
tone down, tune down, unbend, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undo,
unman, unnerve, unstrain, unstrengthen, unstring, vitiate, wane,
waste, waste away, water down, weaken, wear, wear away, weed,
wipe out, withdraw, write off
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
v. 缓和,减弱;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
vt. 缓和,减弱,减少,废除
vi. 缓和,减弱,减少
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