abatedadj.
/əˈbeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /əˈbeɪdᵻd/ 1. Reduced, diminished, lessened (esp. in quality or amount).
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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. v. l. 2095 Þe whiche familiers certis þe real power of kynges in hool estat and in estat abated ful [ofte] þroweþ adoun [L. saepe autem lapsa].
1562 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 3rd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont i. f. 12 Take foure vnces of Diarhodon abated, of the best Rubarbe wel made into fine pouder, mingle all with the syrop of Succorye.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits iv. 45 And those in whom this abated heat approcheth least.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 52 By fasting it hath made his flesh low and abated.
a1631 R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower (1642) 24 To permit all men bringing in Bullion to Trade outward the value thereof in domesticke Commodities at an abated Custome.
1768 London Mag. Nov. 587/2 Those secret machiners for their crafty purposes..rose the abated shilling of the land tax.
1852 I. Taylor Restoration of Belief (1855) i. 100 An abated Christianity.
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 312 To establish an abated, or a contrary belief.
1908 Times 21 Mar. 4/3 They offered in addition sites free of rent, or at an abated rent.
1988 R. Fraser Young Shakespeare I. iii. 56 Shakespeare is glad when the rebels go home again, resuming their proper bounds or banks like an abated flood.
2009 Business Tel. (Nexis) 7 July 2 The administrator has earned over £205,000 for his work, so far. This is despite working on an ‘abated’ rate of £185 per hour.
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a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxvi. sig. U.iiii That our fleshlye affeccions be more abated and refrained by ye dreade & terror of hell.
1548 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. vi. 351 The weakness of his often abated enemies.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. iii. 136 Deliuer you As most abated Captiues, to some Nation That wonne you without blowes. View more context for this quotation
1649 Ford's Most Famous Hist. Parismus (new ed.) i. xiv. 83 Which so revived the abated [earlier edd. rebated] hearts of the Thessalians.
a1731 J. Hughes Miscellanies (1737) 115 A sudden Thing of Yesterday, Reduc'd in Mind, and sluggishly allay'd With Body, of abated Soul.
3. Chiefly Law.
a. Of a legal proceeding: that has been terminated or dismissed before completion. Cf. abate v.1 2b.
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1789 W. Brown Rep. High Court Chancery 2 196 The prayer of the bill is, that the former abated suit may be revived.
1825 Morning Chron. 12 Nov. 4/2 He had stated the necessity of the Registrar's keeping a list of the abated cases.
1868 Irish Law Times 24 Oct. 575/1 As the Chairman could make no order in an abated suit, the decree should be reversed and the process niled [sic].
1904 G. F. Longsdorf Current Law I. 620 In exact phraseology ‘continuance’ means the revival of an abated cause.
1995 Law & Hist. Rev. 13 370 In Henry III's reign treatment of abated appeals was similar to treatment of abandoned appeals.
2003 India Business Insight (Nexis) 17 Dec. All pending and abated cases will now be transferred to NLCT.
b. Of a statutory or public nuisance: that has been removed or stopped. Cf. abate v.1 2c.
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1799 J. Wentworth Compl. Syst. Pleading IX. Index p. xlv Prescribes for common of pasture entered and abated nuisance.
1844 New Mirror (N.Y.) 15 June 175/1 This bit of speculation as a preface to our laudamus of Mayor Harper's administration, as felt particularly in two or three abated nuisances.
1888 Birmingham Daily Post 2 Aug. 8/6 Dr. Masterman stated that on the 19th ult. he received a complaint that the abated nuisance had been revived at the farm.
1903 Albany Med. Ann. Mar. 173 Eight complaints were found to be without cause and 18 notices were served to abated nuisances.
1995 Times (Nexis) 9 Mar. He submitted that the words in section 82 meant what they said, regardless of who was responsible for the abated nuisance being likely to recur.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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