abate to blunt (equivalent to rebate):
“ Abate the edge of traitors,”
RICHARD III., v. 5. 35
(compare Browne's Britannia's Pastorals,
“With plaints which might abate a Tyrants knife.”
Book 1, Song 4, p. 87, ed. 1625;
and from Milton's Paradise Regained,
“To slacken virtue, and abate her edge.”
Book ii. 455);
“Which once in him abated,”
2 HENRY IV., i. 1. 117.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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