abate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əˈbeɪt/

Noun

empty-gloss intransitive obsolete uncountable

(law); (obsolete); (uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this. / (uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.

Japanese Meaning

減少：何かが少なくなること、または減退する状態を指す。 / 控除：特に法的文脈で使用される、金額や負担などから差し引かれる行為やその結果を表す。

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The city council authorized an abate to remove the dilapidated building that had become a public hazard.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

市議会は、公衆の危険となっていた老朽化した建物を撤去するための撤去命令を承認した。

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Sense（1）

(law); (obsolete); (uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.

[Letter to Algernon Sidney dated 13 October 1681 (Julian calendar).] There are many things make a man's life uneasy in the world, which are great abates to the pleasure of living, but scarcely one equal to that of the unkindness or injustice of friends.

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Sense（2）

(uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.

That men weigh heavier dead than alive, if experiment hath not failed us, we cannot reaſonably grant. For though the triall hereof cannot ſo well be made on the body of Man, nor will the difference be ſenſible in the abate of ſcruples or dragmes, yet can we not confirm the ſame in leſſer animalls from whence the inference is good; […]

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