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English
Etymology
From all + gate (compare Old Norse alla götu).
Pronunciation
Adverb
algate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Always.
- (obsolete) Altogether; entirely.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 187:His onely hart ſore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe, [...].
- (obsolete) In any way; at all.
- (obsolete) By any means; at all events.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 60, page 67:And therefore would I ſhould be algates ſlaine, / For while I liue, his right is in ſuſpence.
- (obsolete) Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 42, page 47:And with the fall his leg oppreſt ſo ſore, / That for a ſpace there muſt he algates dwell.
Estonian
Verb
algate
- second-person plural present indicative of algama
Middle English
Adverb
algate
- in any case, anyway
c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [Troilus and Criseyde], : Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , book V, : [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC, folio ccviii, recto, column 1:But ſens I se there is no better way
And that to late is nowe for me to rewe
To Diomede I woll algate be trewe- But since I see there is no better way
And that it is too late now for me to rue
To Diomede I will algate be true
- always