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   Rate , 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.]
   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.
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   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.
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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.
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   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.
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   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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   Order; arrangement. [Obs.]
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   Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.
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   Ratification; approval. [R.]
   Chapman.
   
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   (Horol.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
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   (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.]
   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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   To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
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   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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   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.
   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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   To make an estimate.
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