Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BATE'MENT
BATE'LESSBAT'EN-ITES, or BAT'EN-ISTS
BATE'MENT, n.
Abatement; deduction; diminution. [Bate, with its derivatives, is, I believe, little used, or wholly obsolete in the United States.]
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