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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1513-1550
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Debate, Debait, v.2 [ME. debate (15th c.), app. f. bate, abate.] tr. To abate, reduce. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiii. 195.
He … to God cane pray That noyus stryfe til debat 1513 Doug. xiii. iii. 35.
Thir Rutilianys … , Gan at command debait thar voce and ces, To heir the kyngis mynd c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 443.
Ȝit he on kneis askit ane petitioun, At the greit God, his dreme for to debait
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