An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.

present participle of abate

(rhetoric) Anesis.

simple past tense and past participle of abate

(decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.

plural of abate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abate

plural of abater

plural of abator

(archaic) To lessen, to subtract something from.