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▪ I. † amate, v.1 Obs. or arch.|əˈmeɪt|
[a. OFr. amate-r, and amati-r, f. à to + mater, matir, f. mat dejected, downcast. Obs. bef. 1700, but used by Lytton (as archaic) and Keats.]
To dismay, daunt, dishearten, cast down.
c1320Bevis of Hampt., There myght men sorow see Amatud that there had be. 1530Palsgr. 421 [see also 633], I amate, I forwery or astonisshe, Jamatte. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 14 All mirth was amated. a1586Sidney Ps. cxxix, Terror shall your mindes amate. 1611Cotgr., Matter, to quell, mate, amate; subdue, pull vnder, take lower. 1642Charles I Answ. Declar. 19 May 3 The great labour and skill hath beene used to amate and afright Our good Subjects. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 79 Amate, to discourage or daunt. a1821Keats Rem. I. 12 (1848) A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate. 1843Lytton Last of Bar. ii. iii. 136 It amates me much,..that thou leavest the court in this juncture.
▪ II. † aˈmate, v.2 Obs.
[f. a- prefix 11 intens. + mate v.]
To be a fellow or mate to; to be a match for, to match, equal.
1596Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 34 Many a iolly paramoure, The which them did in modest wise amate. 1642Rogers Naaman 128 To amate and equall even true selfedeniall.
▪ III. † aˈmate, a. Obs.
Also amat.
[a. OFr. amat overwhelmed, beaten down, f. amater or amatir: see amate v.1]
Overwhelmed, dejected, dismayed.
a1400Cov. Myst. 294 Beth ryht [pr. ryth] ware he make you not amat. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. i, Awhaped and a mate, Comfortles of any creature. 1558W. Forrest Grysilde Sec. (1875) 95 Being blanked, as one all amate. |