Co-mate

[f. CO- 3 b + MATE.] Companion, fellow, mate.

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1576. Fleming, Panoplie Ep., 320. We will thrust him out … y^t he may Seeke him comates of mischiefe with whom to be conversant.

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1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., II. i. 1. My Coe-mates, and brothers in exile.

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1777. Eliz. Ryves, Poems, 25.

	Where Anger grinds his iron jaws,
	And fell Remorse her entrails gnaws,
	Urg’d by her co-mate, wild Despair,
	Whom Fear forbids th’ attoning pray’r.

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1859. W. H. Gregory, Egypt, II. 122. Perfect unanimity … between myself and my comate.

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1884. Tennyson, Becket, II. ii. 105. Co-mates we were and had our sports together.

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