algate
Adverb
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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.
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer; William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde] (in Middle English), [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, OCLC 863541017 ↗; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868 ↗, folio ccviii, recto ↗, column 1:
- But since#Middle English|ſens I se there is no better way / And that to late is nowe for me to rue#Middle English|rewe / To Diomede I woll algate be trewe
- But since I see there is no better way / And that it is too late now for me to rue / To Diomede I will algate be true
- (obsolete) Altogether.
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