AMATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

2.
v.

To be a mate to; to match. [Obs.] Spenser.


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