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301 words match “BATE”

COMPROBATE v.
To agree; to concur. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
CONGLOBATE a. 2 definitions
Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.
DEALBATE v.
To whiten. [Obs.] Cockeram.
DEBATE v. 7 definitions
for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.
DEBATEFUL a.
Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.
DEBATEFULLY adv.
With contention. [Obs.]
DEBATEMENT n.
Controversy; deliberation; debate. [R.] A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
DEBATER n.
One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
DELIBATE v.
To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in. [Obs.]
DETURBATE v.
To evict; to remove. [Obs.] Foxe.
DIABATERIAL a.
Passing over the borders. [R.] Mitford.
ELUMBATED a.
Weak or lame in the loins. [Obs.]
EXACERBATE v.
To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.
GLOBATE; GLOBATED a.
Having the form of a globe; spherical.
HYLOBATE n.
Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
HYPNOBATE n.
A somnambulist. [R.]
IMPROBATE v.
To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]
INCUBATE v.
To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
INEQUILOBATE a.
Unequally lobed; cut into lobes of different shapes or sizes.
INGLOBATE a.
In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.
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