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makebate|ˈmeɪkbeɪt|
Also 8 makebait.
[f. make v.1 + bate n.1]
1. One who or something which creates contention or discord; a breeder of strife. (Common in 16th–17th cent.) arch.
1529More Suppl. Soulys Wks. 296/2 They agree better together, then to fal at variance for y⊇ wild wordes of suche a malicious make-bate. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 221 Disdaining this fellow should play the preacher, who had bin one of the chiefest make-bates. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage vi. iv. 576 It was not likely they would joyne in conspiracie, whom Religion (the most mortall make-bate) had disioyned. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 145 Satan, who is the great make-bate between God and the soul. a1703Burkitt On N.T., Jas. iv. 1 Lust within is the make-bait of all societies and communities without. 1710Swift Examiner No. 15 ⁋5 Like a couple of makebates, who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxvi, I thank Heaven, I am no make-bate or informer. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 22 Barillon was..directed to act, with all possible precautions against detection, the part of a makebate. 1896Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. iv. 185 He [Hazlitt] appears to have played the part of fire⁓brand and makebate in the John Scott duel referred to.
†2. The breeding of quarrels, mischief-making.
1626Bernard Isle of Man (1627) 207 Selfeloue, Makebate, and Vnmercifulnesse.
†3.
a. Gerarde's name for the Yellow Jasmine, Jasminum fruticans.
b. A book-name for Greek Valerian, Polemonium cœruleum. Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. xiv. 1128 Of the shrub Trefoile, called also Makebate. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Polemoine. 1866Treas. Bot. 711/2 Makebate, Polemonium cœruleum.
†4. attrib. passing into adj. Obs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 62 Thee bane of vs Troians, of Greeks thee mak bate Erinnys. 1622Rowlands Gd. Newes & Bad 31 Which she in memorie would still retaine, And cross the deuill in his make-bate veine. 1675Tullie Let. to Baxter 14 Your own make-bate Novelties. |