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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