amate

plural amates

1. Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
2. An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

present singular third person amates · participle present amating · participle past amated · past amated

1. obsoleteTo dishearten, dismay.

   Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.

   c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton

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   Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?

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

   Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

   1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii

   The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.

   1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC

   For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

   , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230

present singular third person amates · participle present amating · participle past amated · past amated

1. obsoleteTo be a mate to; to match.

   More lucklesse disadventures did amate

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