The Collaborative International Dictionary
Algate \Al"gate\, Algates \Al"gates\, adv. [All + gate way. The s is an adverbial ending. See Gate.]
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Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.]
Ulna now he algates must forego.
--Spenser.Note: Still used in the north of England in the sense of ``everywhere.''
By any or means; at all events. [Obs.]
--Fairfax.Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
adv. (alternative form of algate English)
Usage examples of "algates".
Luna her husband on an ev'ning late Empoison'd had, for that she was his foe: Lucia liquorish lov'd her husband so, That, for he should always upon her think, She gave him such a manner* love-drink, *sort of That he was dead before it were the morrow: And thus algates* husbands hadde sorrow.
For albeit so that all tarrying be annoying, algates [nevertheless] it is no reproof [subject for reproach] in giving of judgement, nor in vengeance taking, when it is sufficient and, reasonable.
And therefore, although there be difference betwixt these two causes of drenching, algates [in any case] the ship is dreint [sunk].