algate

English

Alternative forms

• algates

Etymology

From all +‎ gate (compare Old Norse alla götu).

Adverb

algate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Always.
2. (obsolete) Any way, by any means.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His onely hart sore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe [...].

3. (obsolete) Anyway, in any case; notwithstanding; at all events; yet.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)

   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio ccviii, recto, column 1:

     But ſens I se there is no better way / And that to late is nowe for me to rewe / To Diomede I woll algate be trewe

     But since I see there is no better way / And that it is too late now for me to rue / To Diomede I will algate be true

4. (obsolete) Altogether.

Related terms

• anothergates
• othergates

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Estonian

Verb

algate

1. second-person plural present indicative of algama