1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. E.vi The rebatement or summe to bee withdrawen..muste be sette vnder the fyrste [sum].

1599 R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (new ed.) I. 473 He obtained a rebatement of eighteene thousand, one hundred fiftie and three marks of the sayd debt.

1687 Addr. from Chichester in London Gaz. 2270/4 We having no rebatements to make, are totally thankful.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Merchants having not always wherewithal to pay for their Goods in hand, by means of the Rebatement, such as have, will find their Account in it.

1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III Rebate, or Rebatement, in commerce, a term much used in Amsterdam, for an abatement in the price of several commodities, when the buyer, instead of taking time, advances ready money.

1859 Amer. Law Reg. 7 338 N. G. Curtis transferred several of the notes given for the goods, to Joseph Curtis. These notes were payable at different times..and amounted to $7,000, but with the rebatement of interest were worth only $6,640.

1877 Times 30 Oct. 3/5 Mr. Willis..to-day introduced a Bill in the Lower House reducing all duties 25 per cent., and in some cases providing for a greater rebatement.

1894 Yale Law Jrnl. 3 183 They found a purchaser, who agreed to buy the land on condition of receiving a rebatement of one half of their commissions.

1930 Math. Gaz. 15 58 There is no need to memorise the size of the National Debt or the scale of allowances in Income Tax rebatements.

1972 Econ. Hist. Rev. 25 269 The total charge for re-exports by a native English merchant was also 5 per cent after rebatement of imposts.

2006 Chem News & Intelligence (Nexis) 28 Mar. It would be difficult for the UK's cracker operators to cut their carbon dioxide emissions. ‘There is no potential for rebatement... Nobody would see the advantage in taking the investments necessary.’

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 127 This is a rebatement,..but is rebated onely for dought of challenge.

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 97 I haue heard of these nine vices before: and also of certaine rebatements of armes appointed to them.

1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. vii. 101 There are notes of infamy as well as of honour, which in Arms are called Rebatements.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rebatement,..a Diminution..of the Dignity of the Figures or Bearings in a Coat of Arms.

1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Wotton's Baronetage of Eng. III. 379 Baton..is generally used as a rebatement on coats of Arms, to denote illegitimacy, as in the Arms of Sir Charles Sheffield, the dukes of Cleveland, Grafton, St. Albans.

1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood & Chivalry 4 Abatements, Rebatements, marks of disgrace attached to heraldic arms, by reason of a dishonorable act of the bearer.

1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason iii. vii. 123 In this word Festino sheweth that the reasons placed in this seat must be reduced to Ferio: and S. sheweth howe, euen by turning the first foresaye, wythoute rebatement of the signe.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 303 The rebatement of Bishoppes liuinges.

1640 J. Mabbe tr. M. de Cervantes Exemplarie Novells i. 43 The great joy (deare brother) which I have received in seeing you can bring no lesse rebatement with it, then exceeding great sorrow.

1663 Tullie in Lett. & Poems (1676) 95 Mine I fear may look like Injury and Rebatement to their Worth.

1701 T. Beverley Praise of Glory 37 The Law hath its full Course, it is pointed still against Them, without Rebatement.

1724 W. Stukeley Itinerarium Curiosum vi. 163 The bredth of the opening or entrance, level with the surface, and opposit to the falling beams of the sun, must produce a very great rebatement of the heat thereof.

1873 Times 14 Mar. 5/3 It is impossible for us to agree to the terms they propose, for neither can the exalted character of the Assembly consent to a rebatement so complete.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 20^v The out sides shining cleere and smoothly pollished, chamfered, and chanelled with foure and twenty rebatements or channels in euery collumne betwixt the nextruls or cordels.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vi. 6 In the wall of the house hee made narrowed rests [margin, narrowings, or, rebatements] round about, that the beames should not bee fastened in the walles of the house. View more context for this quotation

1661 T. Wilson Compl. Christian Dict. 531/2 At the floor of the middle chambers, there was a rebatement in the wall, a cubit thick; and at the floor of the highest chambers, such another rebatement. On these rebatements the beams of the chambers were laid.

1723 W. Lowth Comm. Ezekiel 377 The space of Five Cubits was allowed for the lower Chambers, tho' the upper Stories were wider, by Reason of the Rebatement of the Wall.

1741 J. Wood Origin of Building iii. ix. 122 By these Rebatements, the Floors of the Chambers were supported without being fastened into the Wall of the Temple.

1858 J. T. Barclay City of Great King viii. 184 Though hewn out of the solid rock, the characteristic Jewish rebatement, like that of the ancient temple wall, was so boldly executed that much of it is as sharp and perfect as though chiselled but yesterday.

1873 M. W. Redding Antiq. Orient Unveiled v. 85 The term bevelling is applied to the Jewish rebatement, which is a channel cut a half-inch..deep all around the edge of a block on the same level plane as the face, and never slanted or bevelled.

1907 Biblical World 30 10 The greater breadth of the upper stories was due to the fact that there was a rebatement of half a cubit in both walls at each story.

1936 G. A. Cooke Crit. Comm. Ezek. 446 The floors above were larger in proportion to the rebatements in the wall of the temple.

1963 J. Gray I & II Kings ii. 155 The fact that a total rebatement of 3 cubits in the wall of the Temple was possible gives us a rough idea, the only indication, of the thickness of the wall.