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▪ I. alate, adv., prop. phr. arch.|əˈleɪt|
[a prep.2 of + late.]
Of late, lately.
c1400Destr. Troy x. 4176 Of shame and of shenship shapyn vs alate. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (1845) 16 The goodly portres..axed me from whence I came alate? c1590Greene Poems 119 Where chilling frost alate did nip, There flasheth now a fire. 1670Walton Lives iii. 151 How art thou chang'd from what thou wert a late. 1842Mrs. Browning Poems (1878) 219 But the Harpies alate In the storm came, and swept off the maidens.
▪ II. † aˈlate, v. Obs. rare—1.
[a. OFr. alaite-r, -ier:—L. adlactā-re to give milk to; f. ad to + lac, lact- milk.]
To give milk to, suckle.
a1521Helyas in Prose Rom. (1858) III. 56 The vii children were nourished and alated [printed alaced] of the saide white goate.
▪ III. alate, a.|ˈeɪleɪt|
[ad. L. ālāt-us, f. āla a wing; cf. caudate and L. togātus: see -ate.]
Winged; having wings or side appendages resembling wings in shape or general appearance.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 118 Alate seed-vessels; or Keys. 1763Stukeley Palæogr. Sacra 73 Nainby—Lincolnshire—from an alate temple there. 1857Henfrey Elem. Bot. 76 Sometimes the stalk-like petiole is winged (alate), a narrow plate of the blade structure running down its margins. 1876G. B. Buckton Brit. Aphid. (Ray Soc.) I. 86 The alate females are never so plentiful as the apterous. |