A-māte’, v. i.

v. i. [Prefix a and mate, q. v.] 1. To accompany. [Obs.] Spenser. For never knight that dared warlike deed More luckless dissadventures did amate. Spenser. 2. To terrify; to astonish; to daunt; to dishearten. [Obs.] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.