abate of
English
Verb
- (archaic) To lessen, to subtract something from. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
References
- Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 2
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