rated
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rated
- simple past tense and past participle of rate
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rated (comparative more rated, superlative most rated)
- (now rare) Scolded, rebuked. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:
- He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley:
- He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1: