abate
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abate englanniksi
To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate. (defdate)
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(quote-book) (w)|year=1576|section=folios 6, verso – 7, recto|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdK_3mjC0N8C&pg=PA7|oclc=216668348|passage=Jupiter whiche by his goodnes as Marcianus ſaieth, abateth the malice of Saturne. Therfore the Poets faine, that he did put his father out of his kingdome, Iſidore writeth as he abateth the malice of the euill Planets, (..)
(quote-book)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eRgQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP26|series=First Quarto|location=London|publisher=(...) Creede|Thomas Creede, for Millington (publisher)|Thomas Millington, and Iohn Busby,(nb...)|year=1599|year_published=1600|oclc=932920979|passage=Abate thy rage ſweete knight, Abate thy rage.|footer=(small) (1623).
(RQ:Evelyn Sylva)
(RQ:Herbert Complete Works)&93; would often say, 'Lord, abate my great affliction, or increase my patience; but, Lord, I repine not; I am dumb, Lord, before Thee, because Thou doest it.'
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(RQ:Mill On Liberty)
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(quote-book)|location=Calicè actually London|publisher=(glossary)|year=1599|pages=77–78|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnxnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA78|oclc=1001546433|passage=Thou haſt dominion ouer their power, and when they be exalted & ſet aloft in their waies, thou abateſt their courage, and deſtroyeſt them with thy mighty arme.
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(RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak) Lance, after having made some shew of helping him to his horse, ran back to tell his master the joyful intelligence, that a lucky accident had abated Chiffinch's party to their own number.
To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
To demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure). (defdate)
(RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke) 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.
To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception. (defdate)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
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(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1)
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify. (defdate)
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(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries) 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: (..)
To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
To give (someone) a discount or rebate; also, to relieve (someone) of a debt. (defdate)
(RQ:Franklin Autobiography) 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.
To down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status. (defdate)
(quote-book)If any great person to be abated, not to deal with him by ''calumniation'' or ''forged matter''(..)
(RQ:Taylor Twenty-five Sermons)
''Chiefly followed by'' from'','' of'', etc.'': to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract. (defdate)
(RQ:Fuller Church History))|page=54|passage=Peter's pence|Peter-pence succeeded; granted by of Wessex|Ina, king of the West Saxons, to Gregory II|pope Gregory II. ''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.
(RQ:Twain Prince and the Pauper)
''Chiefly followed by'' of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing). (defdate)
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear Q1)
(quote-book)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...) John Grismond for John Clark,(nb...)|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''!
(quote-book) (w)|year=1576|section=folio 53, verso|sectionurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=EdK_3mjC0N8C&pg=PA53-IA1|oclc=216668348|passage=(..) the Elder|Plini writeth, that the crueltie of the Ramme abateth, if he bee perced in the horne neare vnto the eare. For the chiefeſt parte of his ſtrength, is in his hedd, where he is well armed to fighte.
(RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender) &91;folio 10, recto&93; Gloss. (..) To quell) to abate.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5 Q1)
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(quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=(...) G. George John and James Robinson,(nb...)|year=1785|column=2|oclc=470772053|passage=CODS, or (smallcaps); a malady in horſes that comes in many ways, (..) For the cure, take bole armoniac reduced to a fine powder, vinegar and whites of eggs well beaten together, and anoint the part with it daily, till the ſwelling abates: (..)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) during the eighteen years which had elapsed since the Restoration, the hatred of Puritanism had abated, and the hatred of Popery had increased.
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To decrease in amount or size. (defdate)
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(RQ:Bacon Works) the same greatness of wealth is for the most part not collected and obtained without sucking it from many, according to the received similitude of the spleen, which never swelleth but when the rest of the body pineth and abateth.
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
To lower in price or value; specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests full. (defdate)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries)
(RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke)
Of a writ or other legal document: to become and void; to cease to have effect. (defdate)
(quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) H. Twyford,(nb...)|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, (..)
(quote-book)|chapter=Error|title=Bacon's Abridgement|A New Abridgement of the Law.(nb...)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...) Strahan (publisher)|William Strahan and M. Woodfall,(nb...); for C. Bathurst,(nb...)|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.
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.
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries) in actions ariſing ''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.
To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate. (defdate)
To down; hence, to be abased or humbled. (defdate)
''Chiefly followed by'' of: to deduct or subtract from. (defdate)
(RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake)
(RQ:Melville Mardi)
(quote-book) dated 13 October 1681 (Julian calendar). There are many things make a man's life uneasy in the world, which are great abates to the pleasure of living, but scarcely one equal to that of the unkindness or injustice of friends.
Deduction; subtraction; an instance of this. (defdate)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)
To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it. (defdate)
(quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) H. Twyford,(nb...)|year=1680|section=part VI|pages=570–571|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Fl7jCgB_J4C&pg=PA571|oclc=1227559786|passage=So, if Lands be given to Father and Son, and to the heirs of their two bodies begotten, the remainder over in fee, and afterwards the Father dieth without any Iſſue but the Son, and afterwards the Son dieth without Iſſue, and a Stranger abateth, he in the remainder ſhall have one Formedon in the remainder, although the Eſtate tails were ſeveral, (..)
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abbess (gloss)
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to stop (q)
to dissuade
to knock down
a clergyman from Italy or France, or that has resided there.
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