ABATE Copy link • ABATETransitively, lessen, Vid: Bate, Vid: Intransitively, minui, se minuere. and minuere (Vid: Herzog, ad Coes., B.G., iii, 12): imminui (to be lessened inwardly): remitti: se remittere, and remittere only (to leave off; of rain, cold, a fever, etc.): levari, sublevari (to be lightened): leniri, mitigari (to be softened; mitigated). Phrase, ira deferveseit: sermo hominum refrigeratur.