abate of

English

Verb

(archaic) To lessen, to subtract something from. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

“abate of” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

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