Abated

ppl. a. [f. ABATE v.¹ + -ED.]

  † 1.  Beaten, subdued, cast down. Obs.

1534.  More, Comf. agaynste tribul., III. (Wks. 1557), 1258/1. That oure fleshlye affeccions, be more abated and refrayned by the dreade and terroure of hell.

1548.  in Strype, Eccl. Mem., VI. 351. The weakness of his often abated enemies.

1610.  Shaks., Coriol., III. iii. 132. Deliver you As most abated Captiues, to some Nation That wonne you without blowes.

1661.  Parismus, I. 89. Which so revived the abated hearts of the Thessalins.

  2.  Diminished, reduced, lowered in quality or amount.

1594.  R. C[arew], Huarte’s Exam. of Wits (1616), 45. And those in whom this abated heat approcheth least.

1607.  Topsell, Serpents (1673), 629. By fasting it hath made his flesh low and abated.

1855.  I. Taylor, Restor. Belief., 100. An abated Christianity. Ibid. (1859), Logic in Theol., 312. To establish an abated, or a contrary belief.