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Webster 1913 Edition

rep.

[Strictly p. pr. of

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.

ppr.

[from bate.] Abating; taking away; deducting; excepting.

Children have few ideas, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst.