abated

abated

1. simple past tense and past participle of abate

abated

1. (decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.

• 1889 Century Dictionary, volume 1 page 5

• abated in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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