arch., prop. phr. [A prep.2 of + LATE.] Of late, lately.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, X. 4176. Of shame and of shenship shapyn vs alate.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas. (1845), 16. The goodly portres … axed me from whence I came alate?
c. 1590. Greene, Poems, 119. Where chilling frost alate did nip, There flasheth now a fire.
1670. Walton, Lives, III. 151. How art thou chang’d from what thou wert a late.
1842. Mrs. Browning, Poems (1878), 219. But the Harpies alate In the storm came, and swept off the maidens.
