anothergates
adjEtymology Likely from another + gate (“way, path, journey”) + -s (“possessive suffix”)
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Obsolete Of a different kind or sort.
- If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaines husband than Dametas.1580, Sir Phillip Sidney, Arcadia:
- If we be of the spiritualty, there would be in us anothergates manifestation of the Spirit than is ordinarily to be found in the temporalty.1619, Robert Sanderson, Ad Clerum:
2 more examples
- When Hudibras, about to enter Upon anothergates adventure.1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
- and by consequence must exclude the Rays of the Sun in anotherguess manner than before.1696, William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth:
- Related terms
- algate, othergates