abated
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]abated
- simple past and past participle of abate
Adjective
[edit]abated
- (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.
- (poetry) humbled.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “abated”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “abated”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 5