Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.
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2. Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine.
3. Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust.
5. Deep in the flesh, and open'd wide a red flood gate.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. [We now use abate.]
1. Strife; contention.
2. See 2d Bath.
3. An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
2. To waste away.
3. To leave out; to except.
4. To remove.
5. To deprive of.
6. To attack; to bait.
7. To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
Breeding strife. [Not used.]
batto'. [Latin batillum.] A light boat, long in proportion to its breadth, and wider in the middle than at the ends.
Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
Exciting contention; contentious.
A sect of apostates from Mohammedism, who professed the abominable practices of the Ismaelians and Kirmatians. The word signified esoteric, or persons of inward light. [ See Assassins .]
1. A sect of apostates from Mohammedism, who professed the abominable practices of the Ismaelians and Kirmatians. The word signified esoteric, or persons of inward light. [ See Assassins .]
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Nonincrease, Decrease Roget’s Thesaurus §36
N. decrease, diminution, lessening, subtraction, reduction, abatement, declension, shrinking, coarctation|, abridgment, extenuation, subsidence, wane, ebb, decline, ebbing, descent, decrement, reflux, depreciation, deterioration, anticlimax, mitigation
V. decrease, diminish, lessen, abridge, shrink, drop off, fall off, tail off, fall away, waste, wear, wane, ebb, decline, descend, subside, melt away, die away, retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble, bate, abate, dequantitate|, discount, depreciate, extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away, mitigate, dwarf, throw into the shade, reduce, shorten, subtract
Adj. unincreased &c. (see increase ), decreased, decreasing, on the wane
Phr. "a gilded halo hovering round decay", "fine by degrees and beautifully less", 3, conjunctive quantity
Nonaddition. Subtraction Roget’s Thesaurus §38
N. subtraction, subduction|, deduction, retrenchment, removal, withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling, &c. v, mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion
V. subduct, subtract, deduct, deduce, bate, retrench, remove, withdraw, take from, take away, detract, garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate, cut off, cut away, cut out, abscind, excise, pare, thin, prune, decimate, abrade, scrape, file, geld, castrate, eliminate, diminish, curtail, deprive of, weaken
Discount Roget’s Thesaurus §813
N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, # depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount
V. discount, bate, abate, rebate, reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance, tax
Adj. discounting
Adv. at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business
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