Bate

Batename

• 1

  A surname transferred from the given name.

• 2

  obsoleteA diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.

• 3

  A town in Comoé province, Burkina Faso.

• 4

  A village in Nova Gorica municipality, Slovenia.

bateverb詞源 1/beɪt/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  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.
  • 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.
• 4

  archaicTo 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.
  • Bate (I beſeech you) widdow Dido.
• 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.
• 6

  To deprive of.

  • When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […]
• 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.
  • The shopkeeper is very good-natured; he will show you everything he has, and does not seem to mind if you buy nothing. He bates a little, but not so much as the Klings, who almost always ask twice what they are willing to take.
• 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.

batenoun詞源 2/beɪt/

• 1

  Strife; contention.

  • […] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories:
  • So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; […]

bateverb詞源 2/beɪt/

• 1

  To contend or strive with blows or arguments.

• 2

  falconryhobbieshuntingOf 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[.]
  • I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist

batenoun詞源 3/beɪt/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  A vat which contains this liquid.

bateverb詞源 3/beɪt/

• 1

  To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.

batenoun詞源 6/beɪt/

• 1

  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.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• beat
• masturbate