abate of

English

Verb

abate of (third-person singular simple present abates of, present participle abating of, simple past and past participle abated of)

1. (archaic) To lessen, to subtract something from. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abate of”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.