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Abate
ABA'TE, v.t. [Heb. Ch., to beat. The Saxon has the participle gebatod, abated. The prefix is sunk to a in abate, and lost in beat. See Class Bd. No. 23, 33.]
1. To beat down; to pull down; to destroy in any manner; as to abate a nuisance.
2. To lessen; to diminish; to moderate; as to abate zeal; to abate pride; to abate a demand; to abate courage.
3. To lessen; to mitigate; as to abate pain or sorrow.
4. To overthrow; to cause to fail; to frustrate by judicial sentence; as to abate a writ.
5. To deject; to depress; as to abate the soul. Obs.
6. To deduct;
Nothing to add and nothing to abate.
7. To cause to fail; to annul. By the English law, a legacy to a charity is abated by a deficiency of assets.
8. In Conneticut, to remit, as to abate a tax.
ABA'TE, v.i. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as pain abates; a storm abates.
2. To fail; to be defeated, or come to naught; as a writ abates. By the civil law a legacy to a charity does not abate by deficiency of assets.
3. In law, to enter into a freehold after the death of the last occupant, and before the heir or devisee takes possession.
4. In horsemanship, to perform well a downward motion. A horse is said to abate, or take down his curvets, when, working upon curvets, he puts both his hind legs to the ground at once, and observes the same exactness in all the times.
abate appears in definitions for these words:
Abatable Abate Abatement Abater Abature Accession Ace Addition Allay Allayed Allayment Allow Allowance Allowed Alloy Alloyed Antaphroditic Antifebrile Application Assuage Assuagement Assuager Bate Bateless Batement Beat Besayle Check Compounding Consolation Continual Continued Cool Cooler Correction Corrector Cosinage Damp Damped Deaden Deduction Defalcation Deforcement Discouragement Ease Edge Fever Frequency Full Give Goggles Good Gore Intermission Leather-seller Lenitive Lightning Mitigate Mitigation Moroseness Off Ouster Palliate Palliation Palliative Plea Qualifiable Qualification Qualify Quash Quashed Quell Rabate Rebatement Reckon Refrigerant Refrigeration Relax Relaxation Relaxed Relieve Remission Remit Revivor Rigidly Rigorous Rigorously Slack Spinster Straw Subside Sustain Tare Unabated Unremitted Unremittingly
Abatable Abate Abatement Abater Abature Accession Ace Addition Allay Allayed Allayment Allow Allowance Allowed Alloy Alloyed Antaphroditic Antifebrile Application Assuage Assuagement Assuager Bate Bateless Batement Beat Besayle Check Compounding Consolation Continual Continued Cool Cooler Correction Corrector Cosinage Damp Damped Deaden Deduction Defalcation Deforcement Discouragement Ease Edge Fever Frequency Full Give Goggles Good Gore Intermission Leather-seller Lenitive Lightning Mitigate Mitigation Moroseness Off Ouster Palliate Palliation Palliative Plea Qualifiable Qualification Qualify Quash Quashed Quell Rabate Rebatement Reckon Refrigerant Refrigeration Relax Relaxation Relaxed Relieve Remission Remit Revivor Rigidly Rigorous Rigorously Slack Spinster Straw Subside Sustain Tare Unabated Unremitted Unremittingly
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