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Webster 1913 Edition

rep.

[Strictly p. pr. of

to abate.]

With the exception of; excepting.

We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them,

bating

some faint ideas of hunger and thirst.

Locke.

ppr.

[from bate.] Abating; taking away; deducting; excepting.

Children have few ideas, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst.

bating

bating

(now rare) Apart from; except.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XIII:
  ‘There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.’