† Whate adv.

Obs. [f. WHAT a.²] Quickly.

  The identity of the word in the phr. Alse (h)wat se (= as soon as) is uncertain.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 79. Al se hwat se he forgulte wes … þet him er luuede ho him for wundeden.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 71. Alse wat swo þe man his sinne sore bimurneð, ure drihten leðeð þe sinne bendes.

13[?].  K. Alis., 2639 (Laud MS.). To Tebes ward hij wendeþ whate, Hij sheteþ aȝeins hym þe gate.

a. 1400.  Lybeaus Disc., 1741. Lambard ladde hym forth well whate.