English Dictionary

bate

/beɪt/

verb

(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate. / (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation / (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.

He bate the ball with a tennis racket.

意味（1）

(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.

Ah, left ſome Thorn ſhoul'd pierce thy tender Foot, / Or thou ſhoul'dſt fall in flying my purſuit! / To ſharp uneven Ways thy ſteps decline; / Abate thy Speed, and I will bate of mine.

意味（2）

(transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation

[…] and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the willow wand.

意味（3）

(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.

Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.

意味（4）

(archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.

Bate the King, and be he fleſh and blood, / He lyes that ſaies it, thy mother at fifteen / Was black and ſinful to her.

意味（5）

To waste away.

Bardoll, am I not falne away vilely ſince this laſt action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skinne hangs about me like an old Ladies looſe gowne.

意味（6）

To deprive of.

When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […]

意味（7）

To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.

[W]hen the Landholder's Rent falls, he muſt either bate the Labourer's Wages, or not imploy, or not pay him; which either way makes him feel the want of Money.

意味（8）

To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

Theſe are the conditions of his treating with God, to whom he bates nothing or what he ſtood upon with the Parlament: as if Commiſſions of Array could deale with him alſo.