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  • adverb Alternative form of algate.

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Examples

  • I beg thee to grant me a visit; algates, if it irk thee nought.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • And thou, sir friar, if thou wilt algates [181] rave.

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • "Forsooth, I knew not you had so much of ingenious art; algates, the toy is somewhat ghastly."

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "Forsooth, I knew not you had so much of ingenious art; algates, the toy is somewhat ghastly."

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Things ill done and long time passed are easier blamed than mended; algates, so it was.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • The mother, being needy, was pleased with the offer; algates, having the spirit of a gentlewoman, she said, 'Madam, tell me what I can do for you; if it consist with my honour, I will willingly do it, and you shall after do that which shall please you.'

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • 'Doctor, you have right well and courteously chastised our presumptuous emprise; algates, your love is dear to me, as should be that of a man of worth and learning; wherefore, you may in all assurance command me, as your creature, of your every pleasure, saving only mine honour.'

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • a fissure and looking therethrough, albeit she could ill discover what was on the other side, algates she perceived that the opening gave upon a bedchamber there and said in herself, 'Should this be the chamber of Filippo,' to wit, the youth her neighbour, 'I were half sped.'

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

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