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algate
algate
English
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Adverb
algate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Always.
- (obsolete) Any way, by any means.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- His onely hart sore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (obsolete) Anyway, in any case; notwithstanding; at all events; yet.
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- (obsolete) Altogether.