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Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

Weak or lame in the loins. [Obs.]

Having the form of a globe; spherical.

Worn out with journeying. [Obs.] Shak.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

Not to be abated. [Obs.] Shak.

t-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together. Conglobated bubbles undissolved. Wordsworth.

Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question. The Debatable Land or Ground, a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.

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.

That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.

The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

nd the education of Philip. Bacon. My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying. Fuller.