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Rate (rāt), v. t. & i. [Perh. fr. E. rate, v. t., to value at a certain rate, to estimate, but more prob. fr. Sw. rata to find fault, to blame, to despise, to hold cheap; cf. Icel. hrat refuse, hrati rubbish.] To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate. Spenser.
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Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak.
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Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow.
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Rate (?), n. [OF., fr. L. rata (sc. pars), fr. ratus reckoned, fixed by calculation, p. p. of reri to reckon, to calculate. Cf. Reason.]
1. Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
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The one right feeble through the evil rate
Of food which in her duress she had found. Spenser.
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2. That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, “a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.”
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Heretofore the rate and standard of wit was different from what it is nowadays. South.
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In this did his holiness and godliness appear above the rate and pitch of other men's, in that he was so . . . merciful. Calamy.
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Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough. Clarendon.
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3. Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, “high or low rates of transportation”.
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They come at dear rates from Japan. Locke.
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4. A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, “parish rates; town rates.”
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5. Order; arrangement. [Obs.]
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Thus sat they all around in seemly rate. Spenser.
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6. Ratification; approval. [R.] Chapman.
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7. (Horol.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, “daily rate; hourly rate; etc.”
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8. (Naut.) (a) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, “first rate, second rate, etc.” (b) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
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Rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rated; p. pr. & vb. n. Rating.]
1. To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
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To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. South.
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You seem not high enough your joys to rate. Dryden.
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2. To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
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3. To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, “to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.”
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4. To ratify. [Obs.] “To rate the truce.” Chapman.
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To rate a chronometer, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation dependent thereon.
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Syn. -- To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.
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Rate, v. i.
1. To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, “the ship rates as a ship of the line”.
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2. To make an estimate.
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