algate

alternative algates

1. not comparableobsoleteAlways.
2. not comparableobsoleteAltogether; entirely.

   His onely hart ſore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe, [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 187

3. not comparableobsoleteIn any way; at all.

   Or fayrer then her ſelfe, if ought algate / Might fayrer be.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 514

4. not comparableobsoleteBy any means; at all events.

   And therefore would I ſhould be algates ſlaine, / For while I liue, his right is in ſuſpence.

   1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 60, page 67

5. not comparableobsoleteNotwithstanding; nevertheless.

   And with the fall his leg oppreſt ſo ſore, / That for a ſpace there muſt he algates dwell.

   1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 42, page 47