Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An agate.
- noun See
acate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An agate.
- noun obsolete Purchase; bargaining.
- noun obsolete Provisions. Same as
Cates .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
agate - noun obsolete Purchase;
bargaining - noun in the plural, obsolete Purchases;
provisions bought for a household,cates .
Etymologies
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From Old French achat ("purchase"). See cates
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Examples
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First by right and reason of adoption of being in achate, and by victory.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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