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Webster 1913 Edition


Bate

Bate

,
Noun.
[Prob. abbrev. from
debate
.]
Strife; contention.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Bate

,
Verb.
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 of 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.

Bate

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To remit or retrench a part; – with of.
Abate thy speed, and I will
bate
of mine.
Dryden.
2.
To waste away.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Bate

,
Verb.
T.
To attack; to bait.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Bate

,
imp.
of
Bite
.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Bate

,
Verb.
I.
[F.
battre des ailes
to flutter. Cf.
Bait
to flutter.]
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Bate

,
Noun.
(Jewish Antiq.)
See 2d
Bath
.

Bate

,
Noun.
[Cf. Sw.
beta
maceration, soaking, G.
beize
, and E.
bite
.]
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; – employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
Knight.

Bate

,
Verb.
T.
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bate

BATE

,
Noun.
[It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.]
Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.

BATE

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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.

Definition 2024


bate

bate

See also: baté, bâté, bâte, and bäte

English

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
    • Dryden
      Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
  2. (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  3. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
    • c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue:
      He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
    • Holland
      About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1:
      (Sebastian) "Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido."
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.
  5. To waste away.
  6. To deprive of.
    • Herbert
      When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.
  7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
    • John Locke
      He must either bate the labourer's wages, or not employ or not pay him.
  8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
    • South
      to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament
Translations

References

  • 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.

Etymology 2

Noun

bate (uncountable)

  1. Strife; contention.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:
      ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;
    • 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)
      So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; []
    • 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli:
      The other merely needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
Translations

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
  2. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Translations

See also

  • (to contend or strive with blows or arguments): bait.

Etymology 3

Borrowing from Swedish beta (maceration, tanning).

Noun

bate (plural bates)

  1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
    • 1888, Popular Science (volume 34, number 10, page 287)
      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.
  2. A vat which contains this liquid.
Translations

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
Translations

References

  • 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.

Etymology 4

Formed by analogy with eatate, with which it shares an analogous past participle (eatenbeaten).

Verb

bate

  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.
Translations

Etymology 5

Shortening of ****.

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To ****.

Anagrams


Asturian

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

  1. bat (club)

Crow

Alternative forms

Noun

bate

  1. male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

See also

References


Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bate

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of baten

Noun

bate

  1. (archaic) Dative singular form of baat

Anagrams


Kitanemuk

Noun

bāte

  1. water

References

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Latin

Noun

bate

  1. vocative singular of batus

Portuguese

Verb

bate

  1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of bater
  2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of bater

Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin battere, variant of Latin battuere, present active infinitive of battuō (beat).

Verb

a bate (third-person singular present bate, past participle bătut) 3rd conj.

  1. to beat
  2. to defeat
  3. to strike, hit, punch

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms


Serrano

Noun

bāte

  1. water

References

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Spanish

Etymology 1

From English bat.

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

  1. (sports) bat

Etymology 2

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

  1. (Honduras, slang) reefer, joint (a marijuana cigarette).
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Verb

bate

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of batir.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of batir.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of batir.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French batre, from Late Latin battō, battere, alternative form of Latin battuō, battuere (beat, pound; fight).

Verb

bate

  1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight