abate of

English

Verb

abate 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.