abatement
41Abatement — [rebatement]. Her. A *charge or mark of disgrace. It was either sanguine or *tenne in colour. An older version of the names of the colours was staynande colours . Such marks were rarely, if ever, used: no one willingly displayed signs of disgrace …
42abatement — Synonyms and related words: abridgment, agio, allayment, alleviation, allowance, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, bank discount, blunting, breakage, calming, cash discount, chain discount,… …
43ABATEMENT — a mark of disgrace in a coat of arms …
44abatement — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lessening, decrease, decline; see discount , reduction 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act or process of decreasing: curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, drain, reduction,… …
45abatement — a bate·ment || mÉ™nt n. decrease, reduction, lessening, subsiding; suppression, annulment (Law) …
46abatement — n. 1. Diminution, decrease, decrement, lessening, mitigation, moderation, assuagement, extenuation, remission. 2. Subsidence, decline, lowering, sinking, settling, wane, fading, evanishing, evanishment, ebb. 3. Discount, allowance, rebate,… …
47abatement — n 1. reduction, lessening, letup, moderation, tempering; decrease, fall off, diminution, remission; alleviation, mitigation, assuagement, relief, palliation, mollification, softening; waning, fading, ebb, decline, subsidence; weakening,… …
48abatement — abate·ment …
49abatement — n. Law obsolete, unlawful entry by stranger onto land between death of possessor and entry of heir; Heraldry, mark on arms to indicate bastardy …
50abatement — /ə beɪtmənt/ noun an act of reducing …
