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?1545 C. Langton Introd. Phisycke sig. Dii^v Two lumpes, whych of the verye similitude of buttockes be called Nates.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Nates, two prominences in the brain, so called because in the form of buttocks.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. vi. ii. 361 The different magnitude of the Nates, and some other Parts of the Brain, in Beasts.

1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 517/1 The nates too were very large and broad, and near two inches in length.

1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 47 The anterior pair,—the nates, larger than the posterior.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 345 The anterior tubercles or nates are connected with the optic tracts.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 925/1 He [sc. Galen] gives an accurate description of the relations of the third and fourth ventricle, of the situation of the two pairs of eminences nates (γλουτά) and testes (διδυμία or ὄρχεις),..and lastly the linear furrow.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 61 The buttockes hatte nates in latyn.]

1581 T. Nuce tr. Octavia (new ed.) i. iv, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 165 My speciall foe, triumphant wise doth weight, With naked nates to presse by louers sleight, Our spousall, pure, and unspotied bed.

1663 W. Clark Marciano i. v. 9 I did so belabour his nates..that..I have whipped him..for half an hour together.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Nates, a Buttock, an Haunch.

1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery III. 101 I had several cases in which the nates presented.

1793 F. Hopkinson in E. H. Smith Amer. Poems 151 Time was, when men their living flesh would spare, And to the knife their quiv'ring nates bare.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 29 An adipose tumour growing beneath the skin of the nates.

1851 S. D. Gross Pract. Treat. Dis. Bladder i. xviii. 454 A piece of oilcloth, placed under the nates, will more effectually secure this object.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 942/2 The lower horizontal boundary is called the fold of the nates, and does not correspond exactly to the lower edge of the muscle.

1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xi. 58 There my beauty lay down on her stomach, showing me..the swellings of her tense narrow nates clothed in black.

1982 R. Grudin Time & Art of Living viii. 127 We spend millions for blue jeans redesigned to accommodate our sagging nates.

1997 Arch. Dermatol. Res. 289 256 The locations were the scalp, neck and flexure of the elbow (lesional skin), and nates (nonlesional skin).

1890 Cent. Dict. Nates, the umbones of a bivalve shell.