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debaten.1

Brit. /dᵻˈbeɪt/, U.S. /dəˈbeɪt/, /diˈbeɪt/
Forms: Also Middle English debaat, Middle English–1500s debat, Middle English–1500s Scottish debait.
Etymology: Middle English debat , < French debat (13th cent. in Littré) = Provençal debat , Italian dibatto , Romance derivative of the verb: see debate v.1
1.
a. Strife, contention, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel. at debate: at strife, at variance. Obsolete or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun]
sakea1000
chestc1000
pleac1275
threapa1300
noisec1300
checkc1330
debate1340
chopping1377
controversyc1384
briguea1398
tuilyieing1444
quarrellingc1460
lite1493
frayinga1500
falling out1539
square1545
overthwarting1552
mutiny1567
squaring1579
debatement1590
swaggeringa1596
quarrel1605
simultation1605
warbling1632
barrating1635
throwing1897
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3473 To accorde þam þat er at debate.
c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale Prol. 24 Ye schold been heende And curteys..In company we wol haue no debaat.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9684 Bituix mi sisters es a debat.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxxix. 263 Whan..alle the debates [had ben] appeased that were emong them.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xii. 51 Thynke ye that I am come to brynge peace vpon earth—I tell you nay but rather debate.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xvi. f. 21/1 Thus rais ane schameful debait betuix thir two brethir.
1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts 24 To..set good friends and neighbors at Debate.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 16 To seal the Truce and end the dire Debate.
1882 J. Parker Apostolic Life I. 138 The spirit of debate is opposed to the spirit of love.
in combination.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 115 Debate maker, or baratour, incentor.
b. Physical strife, fight, conflict. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun]
fightOE
skirmingc1275
medleyc1330
mellinga1375
strugglingc1386
mellayc1400
meddlinga1450
skirmerya1500
stightlinga1500
debatea1533
camping?1549
scrambling1598
scuffling1599
duel1764
tussling1844
scrapping1891
bopping1958
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. R.vv Their debate was so cruell, that there was slaine v. capitaynes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. V2v The whole debate, Which that straunge knight for him sustained had.
?a1600 Felon Sow of Rokeby in W. Scott Rokeby (1813) p. lxxxviii He wist that there had been debate.
c. to make debate: to make opposition or resistance. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > resist
withstandc950
to make debatea1375
repugna1382
resista1547
reluct1547
reluctate1640
recalcitrate1647
renite1647
to fight back1890
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4380 Þe werwolf was ful glad of williams speche..& made no more debat in no maner wice.
c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 10 Or else, if they made no debate, without consideration and pity would cut their throats.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik l. 511 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 276 Se this be done and mak no moir debait.
2.
a. Contention in argument; dispute, controversy; discussion; esp. the discussion of questions of public interest in Parliament or in any assembly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun]
mootingOE
disputinga1225
mootc1225
sputingc1250
disputisounc1290
arguingc1385
sputisounc1390
debate1393
determinationc1400
luyte1477
disputation1489
dispicion?1510
argumenta1513
plead?a1513
traversing1524
dispicience1531
ruffle1532
debatement1536
argumentationa1538
debating1548
pro et contraa1554
canvassing1565
litigation1567
toil1597
discussion1598
tongue-work1598
agitation1600
canvass1611
fence1637
contestation1638
dispute1638
tongue-fence1643
actitation1661
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion
debate1393
revolutionc1425
treatingc1450
disputation1489
debatement1536
debating1548
discuss1571
discussion1598
reasoning1611
entertainment1625
ventilationa1631
ventilating1660
discussal1809
skull session1959
séance1962
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 348 Tho was betwene my prest and me Debate and great perplexete.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 21 He is of highe wordes..wherfor y praie you..that ye take no debate with hym.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxviii Wherefore the Commons after long debate, determined to send the speaker of the Parliament to the kinges highnes.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 56 If there happen debate about any doctrine.
1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 58 Thursday next is appointed for the Debate of the New Canons.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 51 After much Debate, they concluded unanimously.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 431 Sor-Apis had another meaning: and this was the term in debate.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 155 An account..which gives a very high notion of his talents for debate.
1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 207 Difficulties..welcomed rather as subjects of debate.
b. (with a and plural) A controversy or discussion; spec. a formal discussion of some question of public interest in a legislative or other assembly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun]
oppositionc1451
schoolsc1475
parvis1496
debatec1500
parley1577
probleming1657
tilt1709
responsion1841
c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 95 Thise debates that were made, of good wille, and by noon hate.
1648 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 245 I shall not trouble your Lo. now with the debats.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 17. ⁋1 A full Debate upon Publick Affairs in the Senate.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lxii. 391 The debate, which lasted four nights, was brilliant and impassioned.
c. (Frequently in French form débat.) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > debate
debate1841
1841 T. Wright Latin Poems W. Mapes 346 (title) Debate between the Body and the Soul.
1897 G. Saintsbury Flourishing of Romance v. 203 A form so popular with the French trouvères as the débat.
1903 E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage I. iv. 79 The débat is a kind of poetical controversy put into the mouths of two types or two personified abstractions, each of which pleads the cause of its own superiority, while in the end the decision is not infrequently referred to an umpire in the fashion familiar in the eclogues of Theocritus.
1903 E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage II. xxiii. 153 This débat-like theme is of course familiar in every branch of allegorical literature.
1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months i. 12 The conflict between the vital and ascetic principles..seen in the Owl and the Nightingale débat.
1939 R. M. Wilson Early M.E. Lit. vii. 168 The Thrush and the Nightingale..is..a compromise between the debate and the lyric.
1963 M. D. Legge Anglo-Norman Lit. xiii. 335 The violent language used by both parties to the debate is, like the language of flytings, not to be taken seriously.
3. Fighting for any one, defence, aid, protection. Scottish. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. debate v.1 3.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun]
warec893
mundbyrdeOE
mundOE
forhillinga1300
hillinga1300
weringa1300
warranting1303
garrisonc1320
defencec1325
defendingc1350
protectionc1350
garnisonc1386
safe warda1398
warrantise?a1400
safeguard1421
safekeeping1425
defension?a1439
defendancec1450
warisonc1450
propugnation1575
guard1576
fortifying1580
debate1581
shielding1581
shrouda1586
patronage1590
shrouding1615
fortressing?1624
munification1653
fencinga1661
castleward1674
fending1771
safeguardance1897
1581 R. Sempill Complaint vpon Fortoun (single sheet) Quha findis hir [sc. Dame Fortune's] freindship of fauour hes aneuch..How far may Darius bragge of her debait.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

debaten.2

Etymology: < debate v.2
Obsolete.
Lowering; depreciation; degradation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun]
debatec1460
disparagement1486
embasement1575
digraduation1577
lessening1579
degraduation1581
disparagea1592
bastardizing1598
debasement1602
deplumation1611
depression1628
vilificationa1631
degradement1641
degrading1646
prostration1647
deprisure1648
embasure1656
embasing1659
debasure1683
degradationc1752
derogation1785
demotion1872
objectification1973
c1460 R. Roos tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy 456 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems 67 Yf a lady doo soo grete outrage to shewe pyte, and cause hir owen debate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

debatev.1

Brit. /dᵻˈbeɪt/, U.S. /dəˈbeɪt/, /diˈbeɪt/
Forms: Also Middle English debat. 1500s–1600s Scottish debait.
Etymology: < Old French debat-re, in Provençal desbatre , debatre , Spanish debatir , Portuguese debater , Italian dibattere , < Romance batt-ĕre to fight (see abate v.1, combat v.), with Latin de-, occasionally replaced in Romance by des-; the sense is rather from Latin dis-: compare discuss, dispute.
1. intransitive. To fight, contend, strive, quarrel, wrangle. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
winc888
fightc900
flitec900
wraxlec1000
wrestlea1200
cockc1225
conteckc1290
strivec1290
struta1300
topc1305
to have, hold, make, take strifec1374
stightlea1375
debatec1386
batea1400
strugglec1412
hurlc1440
ruffle1440
warc1460
warslea1500
pingle?a1513
contend1529
repugn1529
scruggle1530
sturtc1535
tuga1550
broilc1567
threap1572
yoke1581
bustle1585
bandy1594
tilt1595
combat1597
to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597
mutiny1597
militate1598
combatizec1600
scuffle1601
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
wage1608
contesta1618
stickle1625
conflict1628
stickle1647
dispute1656
fence1665
contrast1672
scramble1696
to battle it1715
rug1832
grabble1835
buffet1839
tussle1862
pickeer1892
passage1895
tangle1928
c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 157 His cote-armour..In which he wold debate.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5913 For he wol þus debate on me I shal him drenche in þe see.
1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 9 I wyll not debate ne stryue ayenst the.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 508/1 I debate, I stryve..I wyll nat debate with you for so small a mater.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. M7v Well could he tourney and in lists debate.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 592 The Spanish General..together with his Officers, debate of the right thereof against all force.
figurative.1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 300 What shame it is to ben unkinde, Ayein the which reson debateth.1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xv. sig. B4 Wastfull time debateth with decay To change your day of youth to sullied night.
2. transitive. To contest, dispute; to contend or fight for; to carry on (a fight or quarrel). Obsolete or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)]
wagec1485
debate1490
fighta1616
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxiii. 79 I haue debated þe quarelle ayenst the god of loue.
1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xlii. 423 As though they would debate a priuat quarell before his presence.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 406 They see the boys and Latian youth debate The martial prizes on the dusty plain.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xvi. 25 In many a well-debated field.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. Introd. p. xl The cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain, as on the plains of Palestine.
3. To fight for, defend, protect; also absol. (for reflexive) to defend oneself. Scottish. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 172 Is none so armit in to plait That can fra trouble him debait.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. viii. f. 16/1 The resydew..fled to the montanis, and debaitit thair miserabyll liffys..with scars and hard fude.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xv. f. 20v/1 Exercit in swift rynnyng, and werslyng, to make thaym the more abyll to debait his realme.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Devotional Poems in Poems (1910) vi. 64 Then prayers, almes~deids, and tearis..Sall mair availl than jaks and spearis, For to debait thee.
a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 745 Now debate, if thou dow.
4.
a. To dispute about, argue, discuss; esp. to discuss a question of public interest in a legislative or other assembly. (With simple object or object clause.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > debate formally [verb (transitive)]
declaimc1374
debatec1400
forensicate1858
c1400 [see sense 5a].
a1439 in Warkworth's Chron. (Camden) Notes 60 The wyche comyns, after the mater debatet..grawntyt and assentyt to the forseyd premisses.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxviii. 103 This matere..they sore debatyd emonge them self by many & dyuerse oppynyons.
1548 R. Crowley Informacion & Peticion sig. Aii Most weyghty mattiers..to be debated..in this present parliament.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 68 In debating which was best, wee shall part with neither. View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 42 The question has been debated among many great Clerks. View more context for this quotation
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iv. 392 It was debated in the Greek Church.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §7. 533 The Lords debated nothing but proposals of peace.
b. intransitive. To engage in discussion or argument; esp. in a public assembly. Const. upon, on, †of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > debate publicly [verb (intransitive)]
to hold (also keep) schoolsc1475
debate1530
wrangle?1570
forensicate1858
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 508/1 They have debated upon this mater these fiftene dayes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cx After long debatyng, the Commons concluded to graunte .ii.s. of the pound.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. i. 35 Your seuerall suites Haue bin consider'd and debated on. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 199 To grant or deny them [sc. Convocations] Commission to debate of Religion.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. xi. 307 The Commons..debated in an open committee on certain parts of these speeches.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 183 Beatte..came up while we were debating.
5.
a. transitive. To discuss or consider (with oneself or in one's own mind), deliberate upon.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
showeOE
i-mune971
thinkOE
overthinkOE
takec1175
umbethinkc1175
waltc1200
bethinkc1220
wend?c1225
weighc1380
delivera1382
peisea1382
considerc1385
musec1390
to look over ——a1393
advise?c1400
debatec1400
roll?c1400
revert?a1425
advertc1425
deliberc1425
movec1425
musec1425
revolvec1425
contemplec1429
overseec1440
to think overc1440
perpend1447
roil1447
pondera1450
to eat inc1450
involvec1470
ponderate?a1475
reputec1475
counterpoise1477
poisea1483
traversec1487
umbecast1487
digest1488
undercast1489
overhalec1500
rumble1519
volve?1520
compassa1522
recount1526
trutinate1528
cast1530
expend1531
ruminate1533
concoct1534
contemplate1538
deliberate1540
revolute1553
chawa1558
to turn over1568
cud1569
cogitate1570
huik1570
chew1579
meditatec1580
discourse1581
speculate1599
theorize1599
scance1603
verse1614
pensitate1623
agitate1629
spell1633
view1637
study1659
designa1676
introspect1683
troll1685
balance1692
to figure on or upon1837
reflect1862
mull1873
to mull over1874
scour1882
mill1905
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2179 Debatande with hym-self quat hit be myȝt.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 508/1 I wyll debate this mater with my selfe, and take counsayle of my pylowe.
1577 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. Diiiiv Be not hasty aunswere to giue, before thou it debate.
1623 Conway in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. III. 155 These tender considerations..his Majestie debated some dayes.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 65 Enid.., Debating his command of silence given,..Held commune with herself.
b. intransitive. To deliberate, consider (with oneself).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)]
thinkOE
thinkOE
bethinka1200
umthinka1300
to have mind ofc1300
casta1340
studya1375
delivera1382
to chew the cudc1384
to take advisementa1393
stema1400
compassc1400
advisec1405
deliberc1405
to make it wisec1405
to take deliberationc1405
enter?a1413
riddlec1426
hovec1440
devise?c1450
to study by (also in) oneself?c1450
considerc1460
porec1500
regard1523
deliberate1543
to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546
contemplate1560
consult1565
perpend1568
vise1568
to consider of1569
weigh1573
ruminate1574
dascanc1579
to lay to (one's) heart1588
pondera1593
debate1594
reflect1596
comment1597
perponder1599
revolvea1600
rumine1605
consider on, upon1606
to think twice1623
reflex1631
spell1645
ponderatea1652
to turn about1725
to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736
to wake over1771
incubatea1847
mull1857
fink1888
1594 [implied in: W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C3v Then childish feare auaunt, debating die. View more context for this quotation].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 32 I and my Bosome must debate awhile. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 168 From this false doctrine, men are disposed to debate with themselves, [etc.].
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 4 A founder'd Horse will oft debate, Before he tries a five-barr'd Gate.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 371 She sat, Debating in her mind of this and that.
6. quasi-passive const.: debating stands for a-debating = in debate, i.e. the verbal noun preceded by prep. a- = on, in.
ΚΠ
1682 T. D'Urfey Butler's Ghost 149 What cursed Case is now debating?
1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella I. 86 This subject was still earnestly debating.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

debatev.2

Etymology: apparently < de- prefix 1a, 1c + bate v.2, aphetic form of abate v.1
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To abate; to beat down, bring down, lower, reduce, lessen, diminish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]
littleeOE
anitherOE
wanzelOE
lessc1225
slakea1300
littenc1300
aslakec1314
adminisha1325
allayc1330
settle1338
low1340
minisha1382
reprovea1382
abatea1398
rebatea1398
subtlea1398
alaskia1400
forlyten?a1400
imminish14..
lessenc1410
diminish1417
repress?a1425
assuagec1430
scarcec1440
small1440
underslakec1440
alessa1450
debate?c1450
batec1460
decreasec1470
appetisse1474
alow1494
mince1499
perswage?1504
remita1513
inless?1521
attenuate1530
weaken1530
defray1532
mitigate1532
minorate1534
narrow?1548
diminuec1550
extenuate1555
amain1578
exolve1578
base1581
dejecta1586
amoinder1588
faint1598
qualify1604
contract1605
to pull down1607
shrivel1609
to take down1610
disaugment1611
impoverish1611
shrink1628
decoct1629
persway1631
unflame1635
straiten1645
depress1647
reduce1649
detract1654
minuate1657
alloy1661
lower?1662
sinka1684
retreat1690
nip1785
to drive down1840
minify1866
to knock down1867
to damp down1869
scale1887
mute1891
clip1938
to roll back1942
to cut back1943
downscale1945
downrate1958
slim1963
downshift1972
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 4727 Þai..prayed for pardoune of þat attaynt, Þair mysdede to debate.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. iii. 35 Thir Rutilianys..Gan at command debait thar voce and cess.
?1562 Thersytes sig. C.iv I wyll debate anone..thy bragginge chere.
1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f. 56 That body, which was..with fast debated.
b. To depreciate, decry; = debase v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)]
littleeOE
low1340
dispraisec1386
minish1402
deroge1427
detractc1449
descryc1450
detrayc1475
dismerit1484
decline1509
vilipend1509
disprize?1518
disable1528
derogatea1530
elevate1541
disparagea1556
detrect1563
debase1565
demerit1576
vilify1586
disgrace1589
detracta1592
besparage1592
enervate1593
obtrect1595
extenuate1601
disvalue1605
disparagon1610
undervalue1611
avile1615
debaucha1616
to cry down1616
debate1622
decry1641
atomize1645
underrate1646
naucify1653
dedignify1654
stuprate1655
de-ample1657
dismagn1657
slur1660
voguec1661
depreciate1666
to run down1671
baffle1674
lacken1674
sneer1706
diminish1712
substract1728
down1780
belittle1789
carbonify1792
to speak scorn of1861
to give one a back-cap1903
minoritize1947
mauvais langue1952
rubbish1953
down-talk1959
marginalize1970
marginate1970
trash1975
neg1987
1622 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales (rev. ed.) vi. viii. 134 The Parthian put his souldiers in mind of..the renowned nobility of the Arsacides: and..debated Hiberius as ignoble.
c. To subtract, take away. (absol. in quot. 1658).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (intransitive)]
subtray?c1425
abatec1467
detracta1592
substract1637
debate1658
subtract1682
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. i. 48 To debate from the one, and to add to the other.
2. intransitive. To abate, fall off, grow less.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]
littleOE
setc1000
wanzec1175
lessc1225
allayc1275
wane1297
slaken1303
disincreasec1374
slakec1380
decrease1382
debatea1400
unwaxa1400
wastea1400
adminishc1400
lessenc1400
imminish14..
aslakec1405
minish?a1425
assuagec1430
shrinkc1449
to let down1486
decay1489
diminish1520
fall1523
rebate1540
batea1542
to come down1548
abate1560
stoop1572
pine1580
slack1580
scanten1585
shrivel1588
decrew1596
remit1629
contract1648
subside1680
lower1697
relax1701
drop1730
to take off1776
to run down1792
reduce1798
recede1810
to run off1816
to go down1823
attenuatea1834
ease1876
downscale1945
a1400–50 Alexander (Dublin) 2506 Þe more I meng our maieste þe more it debates.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 2548 Þe werkenes of hir sekenes with in Began to debate and blyn.
1586 W. Webbe tr. Horace in Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. K.iiiiv Artes..when they are at the full perfection, doo debate and decrease againe.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. P4 The strength of the symptomes being debated.
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