Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rebating, or the state of being rebated; a blunting; abatement: drawback.
- noun In heraldry:
- noun A cutting off, or shortening, as of one arm of a cross, or the like.
- noun Same as
abatement , in the sense of degradation of or dishonorable addition to a coat-armor. - noun A narrowing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as 3d
rebate , v.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rebate (discount or partial refund).
Etymologies
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Examples
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We are doing asbestos rebatement (ph), we're building clinic in many of our communities that don't have access now for our servicemen and women.
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Being decently and orderlye pullished, with a requisite rebatement, _Lataster gule thore orbicle, Astragals_ or
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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That act provides for the rebatement of taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by fire, except in cases where the owners of such spirits may be indemnified against tax by a valid claim of insurance.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant 1878
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12 Whereas there was claimed of the said Companie the summe of 23553. markes of debt, made by certaine of their factors for the said company, for paiment whereof their whole stocke was in danger of arrest, by publike authoritie: Futher also 2140. rubbles for custome and houserent, he obtained a rebatement of eighteene thousand, one hundred fiftie and three marks of the sayd debt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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