MATEMATE-LESS
MATE, v.t.2 [Fr. mater, to mate in chess; Sw. matta, to weaken, to enervate; Sp. matar, to kill.]
To enervate; to subdue; to crush. Audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [Not used.] Bacon.
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