achate
English
Etymology 1
From Old French achat (“purchase”). See cates.
Noun
achate (plural achates)
- (obsolete) Purchase; bargaining.
- (in the plural, obsolete) Purchases; provisions bought for a household, cates.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The kitchin Clerke, that hight Digestion, / Did order all th’Achates in seemely wise, / And set them forth, as well he could deuise.
Etymology 2
From Middle English achate, agaten, from Old French acate, agate.
Noun
achate (plural achates)
- (obsolete) An agate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)
- Francis Bacon
- These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) achātē
Portuguese
Verb
achate
- first-person singular present subjunctive of achatar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of achatar
- first-person singular imperative of achatar
- third-person singular imperative of achatar
Spanish
Verb
achate
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