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Abate, old style
Answer for the clue "Abate, old style ", 6 letters:
aslake
Word definitions for aslake in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive rare or obsolete English) To abate; diminish. 2 (context transitive intransitive rare or obsolete English) To moderate; mitigate; appease; satisfy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aslake \A*slake"\ ([.a]*sl[=a]k"), v. t. & i. [AS. [=a]slacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake .] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
Usage examples of aslake.
And on their bare knees adown they fall And would have kissed his feet there as he stood, Till at the last *aslaked was his mood* *his anger was (For pity runneth soon in gentle heart).
The water shall aslake* and go away *slacken, abate Aboute prime* upon the nexte day.
In all the Court was none, as I do guess, "That could a lover half so well avail,* *help Nor of his woe the torment or the rage Aslake.
Til at the laste aslaked was his mood, For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.