algate

English

Alternative forms

• algates

Etymology

From all +‎ gate (compare Old Norse alla götu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːlɡeɪt/

Adverb

algate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Always.
2. (obsolete) Altogether; entirely.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 187:

     His onely hart ſore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe, [...].

3. (obsolete) In any way; at all.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 514:

     Or fayrer then her ſelfe, if ought algate / Might fayrer be.

4. (obsolete) By any means; at all events.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 60, page 67:

     And therefore would I ſhould be algates ſlaine, / For while I liue, his right is in ſuſpence.

5. (obsolete) Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 42, page 47:

     And with the fall his leg oppreſt ſo ſore, / That for a ſpace there muſt he algates dwell.

Related terms

• anothergates
• othergates

Estonian

Verb

algate

1. second-person plural present indicative of algama

Middle English

Adverb

algate

1. in any case, anyway
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio ccviii, recto, column 1:

     But ſens I se there is no better way
     And that to late is nowe for me to 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

2. always
   • c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complaint of Mars, l. 234:

     Algates he that hath with love to done / Hath ofter wo than changed ys the mone.

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