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Definition of Bated
1. Adjective. Diminished or moderated. "His bated hopes"
Definition of Bated
1. a. Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
Definition of Bated
1. Adjective. Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. ¹
2. Verb. (past of bate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bated
1. bate [v] - See also: bate
Medical Definition of Bated
1. Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bated
Literary usage of Bated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1858)
"bated Apr. 1,1858. (No. Cot.) This invention cannot bo described without engraving«.
... bated Apr. l, 1858. (No. 698.) Thin consists of a cylindrical knife ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... in the face of all France, an unjustly repudiated wife and queen. was bated
from birth by her father, partly because of her sex and partly on account of ..."
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