bate
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Strife; contention.
— […] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories:
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direction, course, track
— What bate are you on now = where are you going and why ? The dog is on some bate = is finding or following a scent.
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An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
— The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.
- A vat which contains this liquid.
动词 v.
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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.
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
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simple past of beat; = beat.
— Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.”
- Clipping of masturbate.
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Of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
— The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]
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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.
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To cut off, remove, take away.
— Also about Autumne bate the earth from about the roots of Olives, and lay them bare, but in stead thereof put good mucke thereto.
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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.
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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.
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To deprive of.
— When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […]
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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.
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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.
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词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”).
词源 2
* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.
词源 3
Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).
词源 4
Formed by analogy with eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten).
词源 5
Variant of beat (“rhythm”).
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